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• Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849
• Criticism and interpretation

• On Poe: The Best From American Literature (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1993), ed. by Louis J. Budd and Edwin Harrison Cady (page images at HathiTrust)

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• The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe, With Notices of His Life and Genius (2 volumes; New York: J. S. Redfield, 1850), by Edgar Allan Poe, contrib. by Nathaniel Parker Willis, James Russell Lowell, and Rufus W. Griswold (page images at HathiTrust)
• Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical Biography (New York and London: D. Appleton-Century Co., 1941), by Arthur Hobson Quinn (illustrated HTML with commentary at eapoe.org)
• Poe and the Southern Literary Messenger (Richmond, VA: Press of the Dietz Printing Co., 1934), by David Kelly Jackson, contrib. by J. H. Whitty (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Dreamer: A Romantic Rendering of the Life-Story of Edgar Allan Poe (Richmond, VA: Bell Book and Stationery Co., 1909), by Mary Newton Stanard (Gutenberg text)
• Edgar A. Poe: A Study (San Francisco: Printed by B. Brough, 1921), by John W. Robertson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Poets of the South: A Series of Biographical and Critical Studies With Typical Poems, Annotated, by F. V. N. Painter (Gutenberg text)
• Poets of the South: A Series of Biographical and Critical Studies With Typical Poems, Annotated (New York et al.: American Book Co., c1903), by F. V. N. Painter
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Four Famous American Writers: Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, James Russell Lowell, Bayard Taylor (1899), by Sherwin Cody (Gutenberg text)
• Four Famous American Writers: Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, James Russell Lowell, Bayard Taylor (New York et al.: Werner School Book Co., c1899), by Sherwin Cody
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• American Prose Masters: Cooper, Hawthorne, Emerson, Poe, Lowell, Henry James (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1909), by W. C. Brownell (page images at HathiTrust)

• Edgar Allan Poe (New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1917), by Hanns Heinz Ewers, trans. by Adele Guggenheimer Lewisohn (page images at HathiTrust)

• Edgar Allan Poe in Hispanic Literature (New York: Instituto de las Españas en los Estados Unidos, 1934), by John E. Englekirk (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Bibliography of First Printings of the Writings of Edgar Allan Poe, Together With a Record of First and Later Printings of His Contributions to Annuals, Anthologies, Periodicals and Newspapers Issued During His Lifetime; Also Some Spurious Poeiana and Fakes (Hattiesburg, MS: The Book farm, 1940), by Charles F. Heartman and James R. Canny, contrib. by Kenneth Rede (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Guide to John Henry Ingram's Poe Collection, contrib. by John E. Reilly (HTML at Virginia)
• Material by and About Edgar Allan Poe to be Found in the Library of Columbia University (New York: Columbia Library, 1909), by Clara W. Bragg
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Bibliography of First Printings of the Writings of Edgar Allan Poe, Together With a Record of First and Contemporary Later Printings of His Contributions to Annuals, Anthologies, Periodicals and Newspapers Issued During His Lifetime; Also Some Spurious Poeana and Fakes (revised edition; Hattiesburg, MS: The Book farm, 1943), by Charles F. Heartman and James R. Canny (page images at HathiTrust)
• Edgar A. Poe: A Study (San Francisco: Printed by B. Brough, 1921), by John W. Robertson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• A Bibliography of First Printings of the Writings of Edgar Allan Poe, Together With a Record of First and Contemporary Later Printings of His Contributions to Annuals, Anthologies, Periodicals and Newspapers Issued During His Lifetime; Also Some Spurious Poeana and Fakes (revised edition; Hattiesburg, MS: The Book farm, 1943), by Charles F. Heartman and James R. Canny (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Bibliographical Check-List of First Editions of Edgar Allan Poe (A Census of First Editions and Source Materials by Edgar Allan Poe in American Collections v1; 1932), by Charles F. Heartman and Kenneth Rede (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Bibliography of First Printings of the Writings of Edgar Allan Poe, Together With a Record of First and Later Printings of His Contributions to Annuals, Anthologies, Periodicals and Newspapers Issued During His Lifetime; Also Some Spurious Poeiana and Fakes (Hattiesburg, MS: The Book farm, 1940), by Charles F. Heartman and James R. Canny, contrib. by Kenneth Rede (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Poe Log: A Documentary Life of Edgar Allan Poe, 1809-1849 (Boston: G. K. Hall and Co., 1987), by Dwight Thomas and David Kelly Jackson (illustrated HTML at eapoe.org)

• The Collected Letters of Edgar Allan Poe (third edition, 2 volumes; New York: Gordian Press, 2008), by Edgar Allan Poe, ed. by John Ward Ostrom, Burton R. Pollin, and Jeffrey A. Savoye
  • Volume I (1824-1846): HTML with commentary at eapoe.org
  • Volume II (1846-1849): HTML with commentary at eapoe.org
• The Letters of Edgar Allan Poe (revised edition, 2 volumes; New York: Gordian Press, 1966), by Edgar Allan Poe, ed. by John Ward Ostrom
  • Volume I (1824-1845): HTML with commentary at eapoe.org
  • Volume II (1846-1849): HTML with commentary at eapoe.org
• Edgar Allan Poe Letters Till Now Unpublished, in the Valentine Museum, Richmond, Virginia (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1925), by Edgar Allan Poe, ed. by Mary Newton Stanard (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Raven (Philadelphia: Dorrance and Co., c1943), by Chancellor Williams (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Valley of Unrest, by Douglass Sherley, ed. by John Wright (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Cryptographic Imagination: Secret Writing from Edgar Poe to the Internet (originally published 1997; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Shawn Rosenheim (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Edgar Allan Poe in Hispanic Literature (New York: Instituto de las Españas en los Estados Unidos, 1934), by John E. Englekirk (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Cryptographic Imagination: Secret Writing from Edgar Poe to the Internet (originally published 1997; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Shawn Rosenheim (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Edgar Allan Poe Letters Till Now Unpublished, in the Valentine Museum, Richmond, Virginia (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1925), by Edgar Allan Poe, ed. by Mary Newton Stanard (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Writings in The Broadway Journal: Nonfictional Prose (Collected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe v3 and 4; New York: Gordian Press, 1986), by Edgar Allan Poe, ed. by Burton R. Pollin
  • Part 1 (The Text): HTML with commentary at eapoe.org
  • Part 2 (The Annotations): HTML with commentary at aepoe.org

• Poe Studies (partial serial archives)
• Poe Newsletter (partial serial archives)

• The Portraits and Daguerreotypes of Edgar Allan Poe (Charlottesville: University of Virginia, c1989), by Michael Deas (illustrated HTML at eapoe.org)

• Edgar Allan Poe in Hispanic Literature (New York: Instituto de las Españas en los Estados Unidos, 1934), by John E. Englekirk (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Valley of Unrest, by Douglass Sherley, ed. by John Wright (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Six Screenplays (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1997), by Robert Riskin, ed. by Patrick McGilligan (HTML at UC Press)
• How to Write Photoplays (Philadelphia: Royal Pub. Co., c1916), by Carl Charlton
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Art of Sound Pictures (New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., c1930), by Walter B. Pitkin and William Moulton Marston, contrib. by Jesse L. Lasky (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der Film: Seine Mittel, Seine Ziele (in German; Berlin: Schuster und Loeffler, 1921), by Urban Gad (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• How to Write a Photoplay (Chicago: Photoplaywrights' Ass'n of America, c1914), by Arthur Winfield Thomas, contrib. by B. P. Schulberg
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Hymns of the Tamil Saivite Saints (English content only; 1921), ed. by F. Kingsbury and Godfrey E. Phillips (illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• Shah Latif and His Message, by Jī. Em. Sayyidu, trans. by Egnert Azariah (HTML at gmsyed.org)

• The Vitality of Allegory: Figural Narrative in Modern and Contemporary Fiction (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2012), by Gary Johnson (PDF at Ohio State)

• De Codicibus Aeschineis (dissertation in Latin; Berlin: Actien-Gesellschaft, 1882), by Johannes Adam (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Origin of the Modern Jewish Woman Writer: Romance and Reform in Victorian England (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1996), by Michael Galchinsky (multiple formats with commentry at Wayne State)

• The Poems of Aimeric de Peguilhan (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, c1950), by Aimeric de Peguilhan, ed. by William P. Shepard and Frank M. Chambers (PDF with commentary at Northwestern)

• The Newgate Novel, 1830-1847: Bulwer, Ainsworth, Dickens and Thackeray (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1963), by Keith Hollingsworth, illust. by George Cruikshank, Hablot Knight Browne, and William Makepeace Thackeray (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Archaeology of Anxiety: The Russian Silver Age and its Legacy (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c2007), by Galina Rylkova (page images at Pitt)

• Pluralist Universalism: An Asian Americanist Critique of U.S. and Chinese Multiculturalisms (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2012), by Wen Jin (PDF at Ohio STate)

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