BIBLIOGRAPHY

Robertson, John W. “Poe: A Bibliographic Study.” In Edgar A. Poe: A Study, pp. 171-424. New York: Haskell House, 1970.

Attempts to account for the many editions, early publications, and collections of Poe's works.

CRITICISM

Alexander, Jean. Affidavits of Genius: Edgar Allan Poe and the French Critics, 1847-1924. Port Washington, N.Y.: National University Publications, 1971, 246 p.

Examines the differences in critical reception of Poe's poetry by American and French scholars.

Carlson, Eric W. Critical Essays on Edgar Allan Poe. Boston: G. K. Hall & Co., 1987, 223 p.

A collection of essays ranging from reviews by Poe's contemporaries to modern criticism on his poetry and prose.

Claudel, Alice Moser. “Mystic Symbols in Poe's ‘The City in the Sea.’” In Papers on Poe: Essays in Honor of John Ward Ostrom, edited by Richard P. Veler, pp. 54-61. Springfield, Ohio: Chantry Music Press, 1972.

Discusses scholarly attempts to trace possible sources for Poe's “The City in the Sea.”

Dello Buono, Carmen Joseph. Rare Early Essays on Edgar Allan Poe. Darby, Pa.: Norwood Editions, 1981, 211 p.

A collection of essays, both biographical and critical, from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Ensley, Helen. “Metrical Ambiguity in the Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe.” In No Fairer Land: Studies in Southern Literature Before 1900, edited by J. Lasley Dameron and James W. Mathews, pp. 144-58. Troy, N.Y.: The Whitston Publishing Company, 1986.

Examines three of Poe's poems according to an unconventional scansion system which demonstrates the rhythmical variations in his poetry.

Fisher IV, Benjamin Franklin. “Fantasy Figures in Poe's Poems.” In The Poetic Fantastic: Studies in an Evolving Genre, edited by Patrick D. Murphy and Vernon Hyles, pp. 43-51. New York: Greenwood Press, 1989.

Offers observations on several poems in which Poe blurs the line between reality and fantasy.

Freedman, William. “Poe's ‘Raven’: The Word That Is an Answer ‘Nevermore.’” Poe Studies 31, nos. 1-2 (1998): 23-31.

Explores the apparent incoherence and obscurity of “The Raven.”

Fruit, John Phelps. The Mind and Art of Poe's Poetry. New York: AMS Press, 1966, 144 p.

A study of the intellectual and aesthetic qualities of Poe's poetry, including analyses of individual poems.

Hoffman, Daniel. “Edgar Allan Poe: The Artist of the Beautiful.” The American Poetry Review 24, no. 6 (Nov.-Dec. 1995): 11-18.

Examines Poe's legacy as a poet who translated his personal sufferings into dark verses that, along with his theoretical essays, are still influential a century and a half later.

Humphries, Jefferson. “Poe-eticity.” In Metamorphoses of the Raven: Literary Overdeterminedness in France and the South Since Poe, pp. 26-59. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1985.

Studies the relationship between the literary traditions of France and the American South, citing Poe as the author whose works became the prototype for this international cultural exchange.

Omans, Glen A. “Poe's ‘Ulalume’: Drama of the Solipsistic Self.” In Papers on Poe: Essays in Honor of John Ward Ostrom, edited by Richard P. Veler, pp. 62-73. Springfield, Ohio: Chantry Music Press, 1972.

Examines criticism of Poe's “Ulalume,” and attempts to find a more satisfying interpretation of the narrator's emotional collapse than is conventionally offered.

Person, Leland S. Jr. “Poe's Composition of Philosophy: Reading and Writing ‘The Raven.’” Arizona Quarterly 46, no. 3 (autumn 1990): 1-15.

Examines the relationship between “The Raven” and “The Philosophy of Composition,” the essay that critically analyzes the poem.

Stovall, Floyd. Edgar Poe the Poet: Essays New and Old on the Man and His Work. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1969, 273 p.

A collection of essays, both biographical and critical, on Poe's career as a poet, the influence of Coleridge on his work, and the critical merits of individual poems.

Tokunaga, Kimiko. “An Appraisal of Edgar Allan Poe as a Poet.” Kyushu American Literature, no. 30 (December 1989): 49-56.

Discusses the lack of appreciation for Poe in his own time and in his own country, suggesting that the Japanese, like the French, held the poet in high esteem.

Walker, I. M., ed. Edgar Allan Poe: The Critical Heritage. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1986, 419 p.

Reprints of contemporary reviews and publication notices for Poe's poetry and prose.

Additional coverage of Poe's life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: Authors & Artists for Young Adults, Vol. 14; Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vols. 3, 59, 73, and 74; DISCovering Authors; DISCovering Authors: British; DISCovering Authors: Canadian; DISCovering Authors Modules: Most Studied Authors and Poets; Poetry Criticism, Vol. 1; Short Story Criticism, Vols. 34 and 35; Something about the Author, 23; and World Literature Criticism, 1500 to the Present.