Great Short Works of Edgar Allan Poe: Poems Tales CriticismHarper Collins, 17 mrt 2009 - 576 pagina's The classic poems and spine-tingling stories of an American gothic master collected in one volume Of all the American writers, Edgar Allan Poe staked out perhaps the most unique and vivid reputation as a master of the macabre. Even today, in the age of horror movies and high-tech haunted houses, Poe remains the first choice of entertainment for many who want a spine-chilling thrill. Born in Boston in 1809, and dead at the age of forty, Poe wrote across several fields during his life and was noted for his poetry and short stories as well as his criticism. The best of each of these is collected here, including the classic poem “The Raven,” and beloved stories like “The Tell-Tale Heart.” In his introduction to this volume, G. R. Thompson argues that Poe was a great satirist and comedic craftsman, as well as a formidable Gothic writer. “All of Poe’s fiction,” Thompson writes, “and the poems as well, can be seen as one coherent piece—as the work of one of the greatest ironists of world literature.” Great Short Works of Edgar Allen Poe includes some of these classics:
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... clearly seen in the long philosophical essay Eureka (1848). Dupin is the man of reason and intuition, poet and mathematician, whose imagination provides a hypothesis, whose reason controls its POEMS CONTENTS The Raven (18451849)
Poems Tales Criticism Edgar Allan Poe. mathematician, whose imagination provides a hypothesis, whose reason controls ... imaginative life, attractive and coherent though it may be, does not adequately account for the analytic criticism he ...
... imagination. The apparent discrepancy between Poe's “unnatural” comic face and his “true” serious face remains a nagging problem for the modern reader. Moreover, even the reader who would allow Poe a natural diversity of interest finds ...
... with thematic wryness, Poe recreates in the last lines of the poem the older “poetic” or “imaginative” vision of the forces of the Universe in terms of hamadryads, naiads, and moongoddesses, Sources and Acknowledgments Introduction.
... imagination nevertheless. Amid the beautifully melancholy recreation of the lost “summer dream beneath the tamarind tree,” we find the ironic, subtle, and dramatically presented confrontation of the “I” narrator with total illusoriness ...
Inhoudsopgave
Introduction 18291831 | |
To Helen 1831 1845 | |
The Sleeper 1831 1849 | |
The Assignation The Visionary 1834 1845 | |
Some Passages from the Life of a Lion Lionizing | |
To One in Paradise 18331849 | |
HopFrog or the Eight Chained OurangOutangs | |
Review of TwiceTold Tales By Nathaniel | |
The Philosophy of Composition 1846 | |
Excerpts from The Poetic Principle 18481850 | |
Review of TwiceTold Tales By Nathaniel Hawthorne | |
Lenore 18311843 | |
UlalumeA Ballad 18471849 | |
Eldorado 1849 | |
1832 1836 | |
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The Coliseum 1833 1850 | |
Ligeia 1838 1845 | |
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Great Short Works of Edgar Allan Poe: Poems Tales Criticism Edgar Allan Poe Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 2004 |