The Time Transcending Poetry Of Edgar Allan Poe: An Explanation of the mechanics of his poetic speech

337 Pages·2016·59.8 MB·English

by  Slawomir Studniarz

TIIE TIME. . TRANSCENDING POETRY
OF EDGAR ALLAN POE
1\n Explanation of the Mechanics
Poetic Speech
This book has been awarded
The Adele Mellen Prize
fur its distinguished contribution to scholarship.

THE TIME-TRANSCENDING POETRY
OF EDGAR ALLAN POE
An Explanation of the Mechanics
of His Poetic Speech
Slawomir Studniarz
With a Foreword by
Richard Kopley
The Edwin Mellen Press
Lewiston•Lampeter
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Names: Studniarz. Slawomir, author.
Tit~; The tiJne..transcending poetry of Edgar Allan Poe : an explanation of
the mechanics of his poetic speech I Slawomir Studniarz ; with a foreword by
Richard Kopley.
Description: Lewiston, NY : The Edwin Mellen Press, 2016 I Includes
bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 20160162491 ISBN 9781495504594 (hardcover) I ISBN
149550459X (hardcover)
Subjects: LCSH: P-0e, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849-Poetic worlcs. I Poe, Edgar
Allan, 1809-1849-Criticism and interpretation. I American poetry-19th
century'-Histo:ry and criticism.! Poetics-History-19th centwy.
Classification: LCC PS2642.P63 S78 20161 DOC 81l/.3-dc23
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TABLE OF
Chapter 2 Outlining the Territory 13
A Survey of the Critical Field 13
Statement of Methodological Premises 19
Chapter 3 Astarte's "'Duplicate 39
Duplicity and Deception in '"Ulalume"
Chapter 4 Moment 80
Chapter 5 Apocaiypsis Figuris 133
Figure 1. Disintegration of an Artistic Mind: 134
"The Haunted Palace"
Figure 2. The Doom of Humanity: 144
"The Conqueror Worm"
3. The Dominion Death: 156
"The City Sea"
as a Demonic Bells"
Figure 5. The Epitaph ·~rhe Valley 176
of Unrest"
,._,aa'"'"'""'" 6 Shadowy Glimpses, 190
Revelatory Flashes
Apotheosis 244
301
Bibliography
306
Index
318
James Russell Lowen is amusing when he refers to
Allan Poe in the 1848 A Fable for Critics as one
like a book of iambs and pentameters, I In a way
to make people of common-sense metres." And
Waldo Emerson is empyrean speaking to William
Howells in 1860, terms Poe jingle-man."
nor hubris is a methodology
nai:lfSiranmrn~ Poe's lyrical poetry. We need
Poe guides us in the 1831 to B-": "Music,
idea, is poetry.'" In the
present volume, Studniarz discusses thoughtfully
thoroughly - ·with a fuU understu'1ding of the scholar-
ship that precedes him - both music idea, both sound
in Poe's poetry.
With regard to is meter,
and He is especially sensitive to
rer1eatect patterns of consonants as an indication of mean
With regard to sense, the author explicates tone and
allusion, and considers both the dark and the And
ably clarifies the dymunic sound and
sense in Poe's poetry, revealing poet's deft delicate
Necessary language Poe's
The poem's "Letter to
is pleasure, and Studniarz's analysis offers insight the