Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe Criticism

• Poe, Edgar Allan (Literary Masters)
  • Introduction
  • Biography
  • The Influence of Poe’s Life on his Work
  • The Debate Over Poe’s Use of Alcohol and Drugs
  • Poe at Work
  • Poe's Works
  • Poe on Poe
  • Frequently Asked Questions About Poe
• The Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Allan Poe
  • Introduction
  • Principal Works
  • Criticism
    • Night Shadows in Poe's Poetry
    • Poe's Poetry
    • Aspects of a Philosophy of Poetry
    • Poe as Voyager in ‘To Helen.’
    • Eroticism in Poe's ‘For Annie’
    • Edgar Allan Poe
    • ‘O! Nothing Earthly …’/ The Poems
    • The Later Poems
    • On Reading Poetry: Reflections on the Limits and Possibilities of Psychoanalytical Approaches
    • Poe's Unnecessary Angel: ‘Israfel’ Reconsidered
    • From Sublimity to Pictorialism: ‘Tamerlane,’ ‘Al Aaraaf,’ and Some Revisions in the Later Poetry
    • The Symbolism of the Poems
    • Daemons of the Intellect: The Symbolists and Poe
    • The Horrors of Translation: The Death of a Beautiful Woman
    • From Romance to Modernity: Poe and the Work of Poetry
    • Edgar Allan Poe's Control of Readers: Formal Pressures in Poe's Dream Poems
    • Poe's Mad Narrator in Eureka
    • Edgar Allan Poe and the Nightmare Ode
    • The Poetess' and Poe's Performance of the Feminine
  • Further Reading
• Poe, Edgar Allan (Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism)
  • Introduction
  • *Principal Works
  • Criticism
    • Poe as a Literary Critic
    • Introduction to Selections from Poe's Literary Criticism
    • Poe as a Literary Critic
    • From Poe to Valery
    • Edgar Allan Poe
    • Edgar Allan Poe
    • Poe as Literary Theorist: A Reappraisal
    • Contemporary Opinion of Poe
    • Culmination of a Campaign
    • Poe on Fiction
    • Toward Standards
    • Edgar Allan Poe, Poet-Critic
  • Further Reading
• Poe, Edgar Allan (Short Story Criticism)
  • Introduction
  • Principal Works
  • Criticism
    • Double Talk: The Rhetoric of The Whisper in Poe's ‘William Wilson.’
    • The Lynx in Poe's ‘Silence.’
    • Painful Erasures: Excising the Wild Eye from ‘The Oval Portrait.’
    • Poe's Dupin as Professional, The Dupin Stories as Serial Text
    • Detective Fiction, Psychoanalysis, and the Analytic Sublime
    • Poe and Gentry Virginia
    • Poe's Ape of UnReason: Humor, Ritual, and Culture
    • History, Narrative, and Authority: Poe's ‘Metzengerstein.’
    • The Purloined Mirror
    • Poe in the Ragged Mountains: Environmental History and Romantic Aesthetics
    • Poe and the Revenge of the Exquisite Corpse
    • Culture of Surfaces
  • Further Reading