Edgar Allan Poe: Poetry, Tales, and Selected Essays: A Library of America College Edition (Library of America College Editions) - Softcover

Poe, Edgar Allan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1883011388 ISBN 13: 9781883011383

Publisher: Library of America, 1996

Synopsis

Gathers Poe's poems, tales, and sketches, along with his longer works of fiction and essays on poetry and literature, and offers a chronology of his life and information on his work.

About this title

About the Author:

Read throughout the world, translated by Baudelaire, and admired by writers as different as Dostoevsky and H. G. Wells, Edgar Allan Poe has become a legendary figure, representing the artist as obsessed outcast and romantic failure. His nightmarish visions, shaped by cool artistic calculation, reveal some of the dark possibilities of human experience. But his enormous popularity and his continuing influence on literature depend less on legend or vision than on his stylistic accomplishments as a writer.

Patrick Quinn, volume editor, is Professor of English at Wellesley College. He is the author of The French Face of Edgar Allan Poe.

G. R. Thompson, volume editor, is professor of English at Purdue University. He was editor of Poe Studies from 1968 to 1980 and is the author of Poe’s Fiction: Romantic Irony in the Gothic Tales.

About this edition

• Publisher: Library of America
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 1883011388
• ISBN 13: 9781883011383
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 1520
• Editor: Quinn Patrick F., Thompson G. R.