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

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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)
• 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 Guide to John Henry Ingram's Poe Collection, contrib. by John E. Reilly (HTML at Virginia)
• 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 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)

• 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.edu)

• 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)

• Intersecting Colors: Josef Albers and His Contemporaries (Amherst, MA: Amherst College Press, c2015), ed. by Vanja Malloy (illustrated HTML with commentary at Amherst)

• Apocalypse South: Judgment, Cataclysm, and Resistance in the Regional Imaginary (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2012), by Anthony Dyer Hoefer (PDF at Ohio State)

• Sixteen Modern American Authors: A Survey of Research and Criticism Since 1972 (followup volume to a 1974 survey; Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1990), ed. by Jackson R. Bryer, contrib. by Walter B. Rideout, James Leslie Woodress, Brom Weber, James L. W. West, Stuart Y. McDougal, Philip G. Cohen, David Krause, Karl F. Zender, Reginald Lansing Cook, John P. McWilliams, Bruce Stark, John Henry Raleigh, John J. Espey, Ellsworth Barnard, Warren G. French, Joseph N. Riddel, Linda Wagner-Martin, and Richard S. Kennedy (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Avant-Garde and Geopolitics in Latin America (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c2006), by Fernando J. Rosenberg (page images at Pitt)

• Nocturnal Fabulations: Ecology, Vitality and Opacity in the Cinema of Apichatpong Weerasethakul (in English and French; London: Open Humanities Press, 2017), by Érik Bordeleau, Toni Pape, Ronald Rose-Antoinette, and Adam Szymanski, contrib. by Erin Manning (PDF with commentary at Open Humanities Press)

• The Court of Comedy: Aristophanes, Rhetoric, and Democracy in Fifth-Century Athens (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), by Wilfred E. Major (PDF at Ohio State)

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