Edgar Allan Poe
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ISBN13: 9780217709101
Paperback|9780217709101
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III The Critic Our ultimate knowledge of Poe, however, must rest neither upon his fame nor upon his personality. These are only subsidiary to the deeper knowledge that comes from a first-hand acquaintance with his works. In mere bulk Poe's literary output was not large but it was singularly varied. No other writer of English has attained an equal eminence in literary genres as different as criticism, poetry, and the short story. To these must also be added a fourth type for which Stedman1 has suggested the name Pastels, or Impressions, or Petits Poemes en Prose. Criticism, however, should come first, for it was through criticism that Poe first made a national reputation; and it is in his criticism that we find the clearest exposition of the literary principles to which, from first to last, he was consistently loyal in the production of his own creative work. But Poe's criticisms are more than introductions to his own works. They have also a value as historical material in the evolution of American literature. They serve as contemporary witnesses to the supremacy of Cooper, Bryant and Irving, and as heralds of the greater group represented by Longfellow, Lowell, Works of Edgar Allan Poe. hy Edmund Clarence Stedman and George Edward Woodberry, New York, 1914, vol. I, p. 94. Whittier, Hawthorne, Emerson, and Holmes. Poe lived in a transition age, when New York was yielding its literary hegemony to New England, and when the South and the West were sounding the first notes in a great regional chorus which, after 1870, was to mark the advent at last of a regionally representative American literature. These movements were noted and recorded by Poe as by no other contemporary critic. But Poe's critiques have an independent value apart from the time and place ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217709101 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217709109 |
| Weight | 0.70 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.48 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 212 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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