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Description for Complete Poems
Paperback. Contains 101 poems by Edgar Allan Poe, and their variants, including such gems as "The Raven," "The Bells," and "Annabel Lee," as well as the uncollected poems, fragments, verses that he published in the reviews he wrote, and the poems attributed to him. Editor(s): Maxwell, William; Mabbott, Thomas Olive. Num Pages: 672 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 229 x 40. Weight in Grams: 990.
Although best known for his tales, Edgar Allan Poe himself thirsted for fame primarily as a poet. This volume, assembled by the eminent Poe scholar Thomas Ollive Mabbott, is the single most authoritative edition of Poe's poems ever published: 101 poems and their variants, including such gems as "The Raven," "The Bells," and "Annabel Lee," as well as previously uncollected poems, fragments, verses he published in reviews he wrote, and poems attributed to him.
In this exhaustive collection, Mabbott takes a fresh look at these texts, aiming "to present what [Poe] wrote, to explain why he wrote it, to ... Read more
Although best known for his tales, Edgar Allan Poe himself thirsted for fame primarily as a poet. This volume, assembled by the eminent Poe scholar Thomas Ollive Mabbott, is the single most authoritative edition of Poe's poems ever published: 101 poems and their variants, including such gems as "The Raven," "The Bells," and "Annabel Lee," as well as previously uncollected poems, fragments, verses he published in reviews he wrote, and poems attributed to him.
In this exhaustive collection, Mabbott takes a fresh look at these texts, aiming "to present what [Poe] wrote, to explain why he wrote it, to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
672
Condition
New
Number of Pages
672
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252069215
SKU
V9780252069215
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About Claude Mckay
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-49), preeminent American writer and literary critic, exerted a worldwide influence on literature through his short fiction and his theoretical statements on poetry and the short story. Thomas Ollive Mabbott, a faculty member of Hunter College for nearly forty years, worked on Poe's writings from the 1920s until his death in 1968.
Reviews for Complete Poems
"Mabbott's full-dress edition of the poems ... carries the authority of having been done from first to last by the one scholar best equipped to do it."
Times Literary Supplement "Mabbott was recognized as unquestionably the dean of all Poe authorities, in the sweep and depth of his scholarly expertise in a class by himself... The Poems is almost ... Read more
Times Literary Supplement "Mabbott was recognized as unquestionably the dean of all Poe authorities, in the sweep and depth of his scholarly expertise in a class by himself... The Poems is almost ... Read more