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EDGAR ALLAN POE: THE CRITICAL HERITAGE

THE CRITICAL HERITAGE SERIES

General Editor: B.C.Southam

The Critical Heritage series collects together a large body of

criticism on major figures in literature. Each volume presents the

contemporary responses to a particular writer, enabling the student

to follow the formation of critical attitudes to the writer’s work

and its place within a literary tradition.

The carefully selected sources range from landmark essays in the

history of criticism to fragments of contemporary opinion and

little published documentary material, such as letters and diaries.

Significant pieces of criticism from later periods are also included

in order to demonstrate fluctuations in reputation following the

writer’s death.

EDGAR ALLAN POE

THE CRITICAL HERITAGE

Edited by

IAN WALKER

London and New York

First published in 1986

This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2002.

11 New Fetter Lane

London EC4P 4EE

29 West 35th Street

New York, NY 10001

reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic,

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including photocopying and recording or in any information storage

or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the

publishers.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

ISBN 0-415-15929-6 (Print Edition)

ISBN 0-203-19547-7 Master e-book ISBN

ISBN 0-203-19550-7 (Glassbook Format)