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DISCOVERIES
IN POE
BURTON R. POLLIN
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
Notre Dame London
[[1970]]
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CONTENTS
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The following text appears on back of the outside of the dust jacket:
Burton R. Pollin examines key motifs in Poe's creative and critical work and traces repeated themes to their sources in Poe's readings and experiences.
Dr. Pollin has searched out scenes in Europe that may have affected Poe's work or that are mentioned in his fiction. He has also drawn on biographical and onomastic information to discover the exact period of Poe's reading certain works which, in the context of his concurrent experiences, affected his attitudes and ideas.
A variety of sources, from English, French, and Latin works, were ingeniously adapted by Poe. Dr. Pollin shows the significance of Poe's mention of authors as varied as Godwin, Béranger, Lady Fullerton, and Tennyson, and of his omission of the name of Hugo, from whose Notre-Dame de Paris he frequently derived material. Borrowed or absorbed materials are examined to demonstrate deliberate and unconscious transformations of the originals. Poe's grief over his wife's illness, his desperate poverty, and his early trip to Europe are related to his basic ideas and his creative works. The details of such melodramatic novels as Ellen Wareham and Miserrimus are discussed to reveal aspects of Poe's critical judgment.
Discoveries in Poe draws on all forms of Poe's work, including uncollected but authenticated reviews published in journals, and traces fully themes of significance. It presents the full, hitherto unavailable texts of two critical essays printed by Poe as prospectuses for the Stylus magazine and adds to the canon of Poe's poetry a short poem which makes a strong statement about Poe's desire to establish a major journal to maintain good taste in America.
Burton R. Pollin, who received his Ph.D. from Columbia University, is Professor of English at the Bronx Community College of the City University of New York. He is the author of the Dictionary of Names and Titles in Poe's Collected Works (1968), Godwin Criticism (1967), and Education and Enlightenment in the Works of William Godwin (1963), and has edited a number of scholarly works.
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[S:0 - DIP70, 1970] - Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore - Bookshelf - Discoveries in Poe - (1970)