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Poe, Edgar Allan
American b. Boston, Mass. 19 Jan 1809. d. 7 Oct 1849

  1. In Aldiss, Brian Billion year spree; the true history of science fiction. Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1973. pp. 40-56.
    Criticism -- Works -- Biography

  2. In Basler, Roy P. Sex, Symbolism, and Psychology in Literature. New York, Octagon Books, 1967. pp. 177-202.
    Criticism -- Works -- Poetry -- "The City in the Sea" -- "Dreamland" -- "The Haunted Palace" -- "Ligeia" -- "Silence-A Fable" -- "Ulaume" -- "Valley of Unrest"

  3. In Bates, H.E. Modern Short Story: A Critical Survey. Boston: Writer, [1972]. pp. 26-45.
    Short Stories -- Criticism

  4. In Beebe, Maurice Ivory towers and sacred founts. New York, New York University, 1964. pp. 117-128.
    Criticism -- The Fall of the House of Usher

  5. In Birkhead, Edith. The Tale of Terror. New York, Russell & Russell, 1963. pp. 213-220.
    Criticism -- Short Stories -- Poetry--

  6. In Blankenship, Russell. American Literature as an Expression of the National Mind. New York: Cooper Square, 1973. pp. 212-219.
    Biography -- Works -- Criticism -- Bibliography
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  7. In Bloom, Clive. Gothic Horror. New York : St. Martin's Press, 1998. pp. 169-198.
    Criticism -- The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym

  8. In Bloom, Harold, ed. Classic Horror Writers. New York : Chelsea House Publishers, c1994. pp. 86-106.
    Criticism -- Works --

  9. In Bloom, Clive, ed. Gothic Horror. New York : St. Martin's Press, 1998. pp. 169-198.
    Criticism -- The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym

  10. In Bloom, Harold, ed. Classic Science Fiction Writers. New York : Chelsea House Publishers, c1995. pp. 122-136.
    Criticism -- Works

  11. In Bode, Carl, editor. The Great Experiment in American Literature. New York, Praeger, 1961. pp. 17-28.
    Criticism -- Works -- Poetry -- "Al Aaraaf"

  12. In Bowra, C.M. The Romantic Imagination. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1961. pp. 51-75, plus see index.
    Criticism -- Poetry -- "Annabel Lee" -- "The Bells" -- "City in the Sea" -- "Dreamland" -- "For Annie" -- "Israfel" -- "To Helen" -- "To One in Paradise" -- "Ulalume"

  13. In Boyd, Ernest. Literary Blasphemies. New York, Greenwood Press, 1969. pp. 163-185.
    Biography -- Criticism -- Works --

  14. In Classic Science Fiction Writers. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1995. pp. 122-136.
    Short Stories -- Biography

  15. In Clutton-Brock, A. More Essays on Books. Freeport, N.Y., Books for Libraries Press, 1968. 109-119.
    Criticism -- Poetry -- "Israfel" -- "The Raven" -- "The Sleeper"

  16. In Cohen, Hennig, ed. Landmarks of American Writing . New York, Basic Books, 1969. pp. 101-110.
    Criticism -- Short Stories --

  17. In Disch, Thomas. The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of. New York : Free Press, c1998. pp. 32-56.
    Criticism -- Works -- Science Fiction -- "Mesmeric Revelation"

  18. In Fiedler, Leslie. Love and Death in the American Novel. New York, Stein and Day, 1966. pp. 391-429.
    Criticism -- Short Stories -- "Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym"

  19. In Frankenberg, Lloyd. Invitation to Poetry. Garden City, N. Y., Doubleday, 1956. pp. 186-187.
    Criticism -- "To Helen"

  20. In Gohdes, Clarence, ed. Essays on American Literature . Durham, N.C., Duke University Press, 1967. pp. 215-227.
    Criticism -- Poetry -- "The City in the Sea"

  21. In Gordon, Carol. The House of Fiction. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1950. pp. 52-55.
    Criticism -- "The Fall of the House of Usher"

  22. In Gregory, Horace. The Shield of Achilles. New York, Harcourt, Brace, 1944. pp. 62-75.
    Criticism -- Works --

  23. In Grossvogel, David I. Mystery and Its Fictions: From Oedipus to Agatha Christie. Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press, 1979. pp. 93-107.
    Criticism --Short Stories -- "The Purloined Letter"

  24. In Hayter, Alethea. Opium and the Romantic Imagination. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1968. pp. 191-225.
    Criticism -- Works

  25. In Hearn, Lafcadio. Interpretations of Literature , Volume II. Port Washington, N.Y., Kennikat Press, 1965. pp. 150-166.
    Criticism -- Poetry -- "The Bells" -- "The City in the Sea" -- "The Haunted Palace"

  26. In Howe, Irving, ed. Modern literary criticism: an anthology. Boston, Beacon Press [1958]. pp. 255-266.
    Criticism -- Works

  27. In Kazin,Alfred An American Procession. New York: Knopf, 1984. pp. 94-101.
    Criticism -- Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym

  28. In Ketterer, David. New Worlds for Old. Garden City, N.Y., Anchor Press, 1974. pp. 50-75.
    Criticism -- Works --

  29. In Kirk, Rudolf, ed. Essays in Literary History . New Brunswick, N. J., Rutgers University Press, 1960. pp. 149-176.
    Criticism -- "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym"

  30. In Lawrence, D. H. Studies in classic American literature. [New York] : Penguin Books, [1977]. pp. 70-88.
    Criticism -- Works
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  31. In Leary, Lewis. American Literature to 1900 . (Great Writers Student Library) New York: St. Martin's, 1980. pp. 258-261.
    Biography -- Works -- Criticism -- Bibliography

  32. In Lewis, R. W. B. Literary Reflections. Boston : Northeastern University Press, c1993. pp. 91-101.
    Biography -- Criticism -- Works

  33. In Literature of the Occult. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1981. pp. 67-88.
    Works -- Weird Tales -- Criticism

  34. In McLuhan, Marshall. The Interior Landscape: the Literary Criticism of Marshall McLuhan. New York, N.Y. : Knopf, 1983. pp. 211-222.
    Criticism -- Works --

  35. In Magill's Bibliography of Literary Criticism v.3. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Salem, 1979. pp.1643-1654.
    Works -- Bibliography

  36. In Malin, Irving. Psycholanalysis and American Fiction. New York, Dutton, 1965. pp. 61-86.
    Criticism -- Works -- Arthur Gordon Pym -- Fall of the House of Usher -- "The Man of the Crowd" -- "Tell-Tale Heart" -- "William Wilson"

  37. In Marder, Daniel Exiles at home : a story of literature in nineteenth century America.Lanham, MD : University Press of America, c1984. pp. 66-107.
    Criticism -- Works --

  38. In May, Charles. The Short Story: The Reality of Artifice. New York: Twayne, 1995. pp. 31-35, 107-110.
    Short Stories -- "The Fall of the House of Usher" -- Criticism

  39. In Moskowitz, Sam. Explorers of the Infinite: Shapers of Science Fiction. Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, 1963. pp. 46-61. Short Stories -- Biography -- "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym"

  40. In Mulvey-Roberts, Marie. The Handbook to Gothic Literature. New York : New York University Press, 1998. pp. 173-179.
    Criticism -- Works

  41. In Paglia, Camille. Sexual Personae. London; New Haven : Yale University Press, c1990. pp. 572-580, plus see index.
    Criticism -- Works -- "Berenice" -- "Descent into Maelstrom" -- "Ligeia" -- "Masque of the Red Death" -- "Murders in Rue Morgue" -- "Narrative of A. Gordon Pym"

  42. In Pennell, Melissa McFarland. Masterpieces of American Romantic Literature. Westport, CT., Greenwood, 2006. pp.43-62.
    Criticism -- Poetry -- Short Stories -- "A Cask of Amontillado" -- "The Fall of the House of Usher" -- "The Masque of the Red Death" -- "The Raven" -- The Tell-Tale Heart

  43. In Quinn, Arthur Hobson. American Fiction; an Historical and Critical Survey. New York, Appleton-Century-Crofts [1964]. pp. 77-96.
    Criticism -- Works

  44. In Railton, Stephen. Authorship and Audience . Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1991. pp. 132-151.
    Criticism -- Works --

  45. In Rubin, Louis D. The Curious Death of the Novel . Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press c1967. pp. 48-66.
    Criticism -- Poetry

  46. In Ruitenbeek, Hendrik M. Psychoanalysis and literature. New York, Dutton, 1964. pp. 303-320.
    Criticism -- Short Stories -- Berenice -- Loss of Breath -- The Pit and the Pendulum -- The Tell-Tale Heart

  47. In Shucard, Alan. American Poetry: The Puritans Through Walt Whitman. (Twayne's Critical History of Poetry Series) Boston: Twayne, 1988.
    Biography -- Poetry -- Criticism

  48. In Snell, George The Shapers of American Fiction, 1798-1947. New York, Cooper Square Publishers, 1961 [c1947]. pp. 45-60.
    Criticism -- Works -- Poetry -- Short Stories

  49. In Spitzer, Leo. Essays on English and American Literature. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1962. pp. 51-66.
    Criticism -- "The Fall of the House of Usher"

  50. In Stone, Edward A Certain Morbidness: a View of American Literature. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press [1969]. pp. 92-100, 140-168.
    Criticism -- "The Fall of the House of Usher" -- "The Murders in the Rue Morgue

  51. In Tate, Allen Collected Essays . Denver, A. Swallow, 1959. pp. 432-471.
    Criticism -- Works -- "Eureka" -- "Fall of the House of Usher"

  52. In Wilbur, Richard. The Catbird's Song. New York : Harcourt Brace, c1997. pp. 111-117.
    Criticism -- "Eleonora"

  53. In Woolf, Virginia. Collected Essays, Volume 4. New York, Harcourt, Brace & World, 1967. pp. 40-43.
    Biography -- Criticism -- Letters -- Poetry -- "To Helen"

  54. In Wright, George T. Seven American Stylists from Poe to Mailer. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1973. pp. 11-49.
    Criticism -- Works

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