Hartmann, Sadakichi - Richard Tuerk (essay date 1973)
Richard Tuerk (essay date 1973)
SOURCE: "Sadakichi Hartmann's 'How Poe Wrote the Raven': A Biochemical Explanation," in The Markham Review, Vol. 3, No. 5, February, 1973, pp. 81-85.
[In the following essay, Tuerk examines Hartmann's fascination with Poe's "The Raven" and reprints Hartmann's essay "How Poe Wrote The Raven."]
Since the publication of "The Philosophy of Composition" in Graham's Magazine (April 1846), in which Poe "explains" how he wrote "The Raven" (first published in 1845), critics have speculated about the genesis of what is probably his most famous poem. Poe's own explanation describes its composition as having followed a mathematical-like formula, running from "effect" to "refrain" to "locale" to "dénouement" to finished poem. Most critics, of course, have not accepted Poe's essay, written after the fact, as really describing in its entirety the process by means of which he wrote the poem. And one such critic is...
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