The Portable Edgar Allan Poe - Edgar Allan Poe [309]
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Works of Genius
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Magazine Literature in America
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Art and the Soul
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Selected Bibliography
FIRST EDITIONS OF POE’S WORKS (BOOKS)
Poe, Edgar Allan. Tamerlane and Other Poems. By a Bostonian. Boston: Calvin F. S. Thomas—Printer, 1827.
———. Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems, By Edgar A. Poe. Baltimore: Hatch & Dunning, 1829.
———. Poems by Edgar A. Poe . . . Second Edition. New York: Elam Bliss, 1831.
———. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1838.
———. Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque. 2 vols. Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1840.
———. The Prose Romances of Edgar A. Poe. No. 1. Philadelphia: William H. Graham, 1843.
———. Tales. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1845.
———. The Raven and Other Poems. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1845.
———. Eureka: A Prose Poem. New York: Putnam, 1848.
LATER EDITIONS
Griswold, Rufus W., ed. The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe. 4 vols. New York: J. S. Redfield, 1850-56.
Harrison, James A., ed. The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe. Virginia Edition. 17 vols. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1902.
Mabbott, Thomas Ollive, ed. Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe. 3 vols. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1969, 1978.
Pollin, Burton R. Collected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe: Imaginary Voyages. Boston: Twayne, 1981; rpt. New York: Gordian Press, 1994.
———. The Brevities: Pinakidia, Marginalia, and Other Works. New York: Gordian Press, 1985.
———. Nonfictional Writings in the Broadway Journal. New York: Gordian Press, 1986.
———. Broadway Journal Annotations. New York: Gordian Press, 1986.
———. Nonfictional Southern Literary Messenger Prose. New York: Gordian Press, 1997.
Quinn, Patrick F., ed. Poetry and Tales. New York: Library of America, 1984.
Thompson, G. R., ed. Essays and Reviews. New York: Library of America, 1984.
LETTERS
Poe, Edgar Allan. The Letters of Edgar Allan Poe. Edited by John Ward Ostrom. 2 vols. 1949; rpt. New York: Gordian Press, 1966.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Dameron, J. Lasley, and Irby B. Cauthen, Jr. Edgar Allan Poe: A Bibliography of Criticism, 1827-1967. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1974.
Hyneman, Esther F. Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Bibliography of Books and Articles in English, 1827-1973. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1974.
BIOGRAPHY
Bittner, William. Poe: A Biography. Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1962.
Meyers, Jeffrey. Edgar Allan Poe: His Life and Legacy. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1992.
Miller, John Carl. Building Poe Biography. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1977.
Quinn, Arthur Hobson. Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical Biography. 1941; rpt. New York: Cooper Square, 1969.
Silverman, Kenneth. Edgar A. Poe: Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance . New York: HarperCollins, 1991.
Thomas, Dwight, and David K. Jackson. The Poe Log: A Documentary Life of Edgar Allan Poe 1809-1849. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1987.
CRITICISM: BOOKS
Allen, Michael. Poe and the British Magazine Tradition. New York: Oxford University Press, 1969.
Auerbach, Jonathan. The Romance of Failure: First-Person Fictions of Poe,
Hawthorne, and James. New York: Oxford University Press; 1989. Bloom, Harold, ed. The Tales of Poe. New York: Chelsea House, 1987.
Bonaparte, Marie. The Life and Works of Edgar Allan Poe: A Psychoanalytic Interpretation. Trans. John Rodker. London: Imago Publishing Company, 1949.
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