A collection of essays that provides a critical analysis on the works of Edgar Allan Poe, and includes a short biography of the author, a chronology of his life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom.
Content Note
Strange fits : Poe and Wordsworth on the nature of poetic language / Barbara Johnson -- Poe's art of transformation : The cask of Amontillado in its cultural context / David S. Reynolds -- A Platonic dialogue : Eureka as detective story ; marked with a letter ; the Tetractys and the line of beauty ; letter as Nodal Point ; a shared structure ; thematizing the acts of reading / John T. Irwin -- Detective fiction, psychoanalysis, and the analytic sublime / Shawn Rosenheim -- Black and white and re(a)d all over : The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym / Scott Peeples -- Reading encrypted but persistent : the gothic of reading and Poe's The fall of the house of Usher / Harriet Hustis -- Poe's philosophy of amalgamation : reading racism in the tales / Leland S. Person -- Ligeia : her large and luminous orbs / Dorothea E. von Mücke -- House of mirrors : Edgar Allan Poe's The fall of the house of Usher /John H. Timmerman.