Collected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe, Vol 5 : Edgar Allan Poe: Writings in the Southern Literary Messenger NONFICTIONAL PROSE

[Poe, Edgar Allan]; Pollin, Burton R. ; Ridgely, Joseph V. (editors)

ISBN 10: 0877522421 / ISBN 13: 9780877522423

Published by Gordian Press, New York, 1997

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x, 406 pages. 4to. 11 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches. Publisher's blue cloth gilt. A new copy. Cloth. Collected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe, Vol 5 (Writings in the Southern Literary Messenger NONFICTIONAL PROSE). Each issue of the Southern Literary Messenger is documented, includes the Headnote for the issue, the text, and notes regarding the attributions. "The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe (edited by Thomas Ollive Mabbott, Poems, Tales and Sketches - the definitive annotated scholarly edition of Poe's poetry, tales and sketches). The series long planned by Mabbott was continued after his death as The Collected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe (chiefly edited by Burton R. Pollin), including The Imaginary Voyages (The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, The Journal of Julius Rodman and The Adventures of Hans Phaall), The Brevities (including "Marginalia," "Pinakidia," etc.), Nonfictional Prose in the Broadway Journal and Nonfictional Prose in the Southern Literary Messenger. Two additional volumes were issued on Eureka and Edgar Allan Poe, Critical Theory: The Major Writings (edited by Stuart and Susan Levine). " (The Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Collected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe, Vol 5 : Edgar Allan Poe: Writings in the Southern Literary Messenger NONFICTIONAL PROSE
• Publisher: Gordian Press, New York
• Publication Date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0877522421
• ISBN 13: 9780877522423
• Binding: Cloth
• Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • American Literature

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Synopsis

The latest volume in the definitive edition of Poe's nonfictional writings presents a fully annotated record of his contributions between March, 1835 and January, 1837 (and later), to Thomas Willis White's Richmond, Virginia journal "The Southern Literary Messenger", a publication which Poe's efforts helped bring to prominence in both the South and the North.The folio-sized book establishes, for the first time, the canon of Poe's writings in this period, correcting many previous errors, particularly those deriving from the Harrison edition of 1902. It sheds new light on the sources of Poe's fiction, and demonstrates him to have been an earnest, sincere, and intelligent spokesman for a liberated and independent corps of critics concerned both with the emerging literature of America and the rest of the world.

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Recently deceased noted American Poe scholar and editor.