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Complete Works, Vol 7
Volume 7 Publisher: Funk (NY)
Hardcover
First published January 1, 1902
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About the author
Edgar Allan Poe
10.2k books29k followersThe name Poe brings to mind images of murderers and madmen, premature burials, and mysterious women who return from the dead. His works have been in print since 1827 and include such literary classics as The Tell-Tale Heart, The Raven, and The Fall of the House of Usher. This versatile writer’s oeuvre includes short stories, poetry, a novel, a textbook, a book of scientific theory, and hundreds of essays and book reviews. He is widely acknowledged as the inventor of the modern detective story and an innovator in the science fiction genre, but he made his living as America’s first great literary critic and theoretician. Poe’s reputation today rests primarily on his tales of terror as well as on his haunting lyric poetry.
Just as the bizarre characters in Poe’s stories have captured the public imagination so too has Poe himself. He is seen as a morbid, mysterious figure lurking in the shadows of moonlit cemeteries or crumbling castles. This is the Poe of legend. But much of what we know about Poe is wrong, the product of a biography written by one of his enemies in an attempt to defame the author’s name.
The real Poe was born to traveling actors in Boston on January 19, 1809. Edgar was the second of three children. His other brother William Henry Leonard Poe would also become a poet before his early death, and Poe’s sister Rosalie Poe would grow up to teach penmanship at a Richmond girls’ school. Within three years of Poe’s birth both of his parents had died, and he was taken in by the wealthy tobacco merchant John Allan and his wife Frances Valentine Allan in Richmond, Virginia while Poe’s siblings went to live with other families. Mr. Allan would rear Poe to be a businessman and a Virginia gentleman, but Poe had dreams of being a writer in emulation of his childhood hero the British poet Lord Byron. Early poetic verses found written in a young Poe’s handwriting on the backs of Allan’s ledger sheets reveal how little interest Poe had in the tobacco business.
For more information, please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_al...
Just as the bizarre characters in Poe’s stories have captured the public imagination so too has Poe himself. He is seen as a morbid, mysterious figure lurking in the shadows of moonlit cemeteries or crumbling castles. This is the Poe of legend. But much of what we know about Poe is wrong, the product of a biography written by one of his enemies in an attempt to defame the author’s name.
The real Poe was born to traveling actors in Boston on January 19, 1809. Edgar was the second of three children. His other brother William Henry Leonard Poe would also become a poet before his early death, and Poe’s sister Rosalie Poe would grow up to teach penmanship at a Richmond girls’ school. Within three years of Poe’s birth both of his parents had died, and he was taken in by the wealthy tobacco merchant John Allan and his wife Frances Valentine Allan in Richmond, Virginia while Poe’s siblings went to live with other families. Mr. Allan would rear Poe to be a businessman and a Virginia gentleman, but Poe had dreams of being a writer in emulation of his childhood hero the British poet Lord Byron. Early poetic verses found written in a young Poe’s handwriting on the backs of Allan’s ledger sheets reveal how little interest Poe had in the tobacco business.
For more information, please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_al...
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March 3, 2021
In reading and studying the writings of Edgar Allan Poe I have found many anthologies claiming to be "The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe," yet in another anthology I will find another Poe piece not included in the former one, therefore in my study I have included several "Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe" all by different editors in order to capture all of his works and which all are worthy of a 5 star rating.
The overall rating of this book Volume VII titled Criticisms is 5 Stars in that it provides invaluable sources of Edgar Allan Poe's critical writings of which as time has proven he was indeed an excellent critic. "Among Poe's ideas of literary criticism was the belief that a work should be reviewed for its own worth, and that non-literary criteria like a writer's background or social status should be irrelevant. Over a century later, literary critics such as Allen Tate, John Crowe Ransom, and R.P. Blackmur adopted the same approach." https://www.nps.gov/articles/poe-lite....
My individual ratings of each piece are my own feelings and personal likes of how I reacted to the critiques of each individual.
Robert M. Bird - 4 Stars
Robert Walsh - 4 Stars
Magazine- Writing " Peter Snook " - 4 Stars
Astoria - 5 Stars
Review of Stephens's "Arabia Petraea " - 3.5 Stars
Old English Poetry - 3 Stars
George P. Morris - 4 Stars
Fancy and Imagination - 4 Stars
Thomas Babington Macaulay - 2 Stars
Seba Smith - 3.5 Stars
The Quacks of Helicon A Satire - 3 Stars
Frederick Marryat - 4 Stars
Margaret Miller and Lucretia Maria Davidson - 4.5 Stars
Henry Cockton - 3.5 Stars
Charles Dickens "Barnaby Rudge" - 4 Stars
Cornelius Mathews - 4 Stars
J. G. C. Brainard - 3 Stars
Charles Lever - 4 Stars
Longfellow's Ballads - 4 Stars
Rufus Dawes - 3.5 Stars
Mr. Griswold and the Poets - 5 Stars
Nathaniel Hawthorne - 4 Stars
Flaccus Thomas Ward - 3.5 Stars
The overall rating of this book Volume VII titled Criticisms is 5 Stars in that it provides invaluable sources of Edgar Allan Poe's critical writings of which as time has proven he was indeed an excellent critic. "Among Poe's ideas of literary criticism was the belief that a work should be reviewed for its own worth, and that non-literary criteria like a writer's background or social status should be irrelevant. Over a century later, literary critics such as Allen Tate, John Crowe Ransom, and R.P. Blackmur adopted the same approach." https://www.nps.gov/articles/poe-lite....
My individual ratings of each piece are my own feelings and personal likes of how I reacted to the critiques of each individual.
Robert M. Bird - 4 Stars
Robert Walsh - 4 Stars
Magazine- Writing " Peter Snook " - 4 Stars
Astoria - 5 Stars
Review of Stephens's "Arabia Petraea " - 3.5 Stars
Old English Poetry - 3 Stars
George P. Morris - 4 Stars
Fancy and Imagination - 4 Stars
Thomas Babington Macaulay - 2 Stars
Seba Smith - 3.5 Stars
The Quacks of Helicon A Satire - 3 Stars
Frederick Marryat - 4 Stars
Margaret Miller and Lucretia Maria Davidson - 4.5 Stars
Henry Cockton - 3.5 Stars
Charles Dickens "Barnaby Rudge" - 4 Stars
Cornelius Mathews - 4 Stars
J. G. C. Brainard - 3 Stars
Charles Lever - 4 Stars
Longfellow's Ballads - 4 Stars
Rufus Dawes - 3.5 Stars
Mr. Griswold and the Poets - 5 Stars
Nathaniel Hawthorne - 4 Stars
Flaccus Thomas Ward - 3.5 Stars
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