Selections from Poe
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About This Book
In "The Critic as Artist," Oscar Wilde declares that the critic's artistic capabilities are as important as those of the artist. Wilde's passionate defense of the aesthetics of art criticism is among the wide-ranging and thought-provoking essays of this original collection, in which noted writers discuss the role of criticism in English and American literature.Contents include Edgar Allan Poe's "The Philosophy of Composition," in which the author draws upon his most famous poem, "The Raven," to illustrate his theories on writing; Matthew Arnold's "The Study of Poetry"; and commentaries on Shak...
Chapters (60)
- SELECTIONS FROM POE
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- LIFE AND CHARACTER
- LITERARY WORK
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- POEMS
- SONG
- SPIRITS OF THE DEAD
- TO ——
- ROMANCE
- TO THE RIVER
- TO SCIENCE
- TO HELEN
- ISRAFEL
- THE CITY IN THE SEA
- THE SLEEPER
- LENORE
- THE VALLEY OF UNREST
- THE COLISEUM
- HYMN
- TO ONE IN PARADISE
- TO F——
- TO F——S S. O——D
- TO ZANTE
- BRIDAL BALLAD
- SILENCE
- THE CONQUEROR WORM
- DREAM-LAND
- THE RAVEN
- EULALIE
- TO M.L.S—
- ULALUME
- TO ——
- AN ENIGMA
- TO HELEN.
- A VALENTINE
- FOR ANNIE
- THE BELLS
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- ANNABEL LEE
- TO MY MOTHER
- ELDORADO
- TALES
- THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER
- I
- WILLIAM WILSON
- A DESCENT INTO THE MAELSTRÖM
- THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH
- (NORTHERN ITALY)
- THE GOLD BUG
- THE PURLOINED LETTER
- NOTES
- POEMS
- TALES
- WILLIAM WILSON
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