Edgar Allan Poe; How to Know Him

by C. Alphonso Smith

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376 pages, Paperback

First published May 28, 2008

About the author

Charles Alphonso Smith, better known as C. Alphonso Smith, was an American Professor of English, college dean, philologist, and folklorist.

Reviews

[Tom]

CONTENTS:

I The World-Author ✔
Biography — Centennial — Russia — Germany — Italy — Spain — Latin-America — France — England — Retrospect and Prospect.

Ii. The Man ✔
Relation to Time and Place
— Accurate Observer
— Interest in Public Education
— Slavery
— Alleged V^ Sectionalism
— Americanism
— Humor
— At Home
— Religion
— Intemperance
— Not the Poet Laureate of Darkness.

III. The Critic ✔
— Introduction
"The Faculty of Identification"
"The Novel as History and Philosophy"
"An Omen of Better Days for Southern Literature"
"Comparison vs. Ideality"
"A Present Tense Wrongly Used"
"The Spirit of Research in Our Navy"
"Government and the Forms of Government"
"William Cullen Bryant"
"Indefinitiveness in Song"
"Fancy and Imagination"
"The Nature and Interest of Plot"
"Defects in the Technique of Barnaby Rudge"
"Longfellow's Ballads"
"The Technique of the Short Story"
"Repetition an Aid to Quaintness"
"Shelley and After"
"Plagiarism"
"How to Improve Our Drama"
"German Criticism"
"The Technique of The Raven"
"A Long Poem a Contradiction in Terms"
"The Heresy of the Didactic"
"Poetical Themes"

IV. The Poet ✔
— Introduction
"To Helen"
"Israfel"
"The City in the Sea"
"The Coliseum"
"To One in Paradise"
"The Haunted Palace"
"The Conqueror Worm"
"The Raven"
"Ulalume— A Ballad"
"The Bells"
"For Annie"
"Annabel Lee"
"Eldorado"

V. The Writer of Short Stories ✔
— Introduction
"Ligeia"
"The Purloined Letter"

VI. The Frontiersman ✔
— Introduction
"Shadow— A Parable"
"Silence— A Fable"
"The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion"
"The Island of the Fay"
"The Colloquy of Monos and Una"
"The Power of Words"

[Lilly B]

The first chapter was great and focused on Poe’s impact around the world. However the rest of it was just straight up reproductions of his work with very little analysis?! What a bait and switch