January 29: (shortened class)and February 5
Poems: Romance, To Helen, City in the Sea, Sleeper, Lenore,
Raven, Ulalume, Annabel Lee (1/29, short paper #1)
Essays/Reviews: Letter to B--, Philosophy of Composition, Poetic
Principle (1/29, short paper #2)
Tales: Ligeia, Fall of the House of Usher, William Wilson, Man of the
Crowd, Purloined Letter, Hop Frog (2/5, short paper on tale on list #3 and
on tale or sketch off list #4)
- Works (Rufus Griswold, 3 v. 1850, with Memoir)
- Works (James A. Harrison, ed., 17 v. 1902)
- Poems (J. H. Whitty, 1911).
- Borzoi edition (1946)
- Works (T. O. Mabbott 3 v 1969-1978) [Poems, Tales, Sketches]
- Continued as Writings (Burton Pollin et al, 1981--)
- Library of America, 2v. 1984 (Vol. 1: Mabbott poems and tales;
Vol. 2: criticism and reviews)
- Bibliography: Jay B. Hubbell in Eight American Authors, rev James Woodress, 1971
- Electronic Resources: Heyward Ehrlich, "A Poe Webliography,"
Poe Studies (1997) poesites.html
- Short Fiction (S Levine, 1976)
- Letters (John W. Ostrom, 1948, 1966)
- Documents: The Poe Log, ed. D. Thomas and D. J, Jackson, 1987
- Life: Rufus Griswold (1850), A. H. Quinn (1941), Kenneth Silverman (1991)
- see also American Literary Scholarship, 1963--
- Journals: Poe Studies
- Selections: Critical Writings (F. C. Prescott, 1909),
Representative Selections (Atherton & Craig, 1935). See also introductions
to paperback editions by W. H. Auden, Richard Wilbur.
- Harry Levin, The Power of Blackness (with Hawthorne and Melville).
- Reception in France: Baudelaire, Mallarme, Valéry, T. S. Eliot
- Trends: Poe, Lacan, Derrida: (Muller & Richardson, 1988), publication media
- T. S. Eliot, "From Poe to Valéry"
- Jacques Derrida, "The Purloined Letter"
- Film and tv adaptations (Vincent Price, etc.)