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Index

Abrams, M. H.: 36n, 79n, 112n, 259, 319n

Adams, Richard P.: 359

Adaptation, biological: Poe's views on, 261

Addison, Joseph: 233, 257

Aeschylus: 156, 157n

Aesthetics: See Romantic; Victorian

Aesthetic sense: See Taste

Affectation: as stylistic fault, 172

Ainsworth, William Harrison: 270

“Al Aaraaf”: 209

Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems: 35

Alciphron, by Thomas Moore: Poe's review of, 234-42

Alcott, Bronson: 341

Alison, Archibald: on aesthetic response, 44; on music and verse, 46-47; influence in America, 52-53; on decline of sensibility, 55; on unity, 100, 101, 112, 147, 152, 321-22; Platonic idealism of, 139, 141, 305-306; on moral sentiments, 150-51; on qualities expressed by objects, 199n

Alison, Sir Archibald (son of Archibald Alison): 60n

Allan, John: 3, 9

Allegory: Poe's criticism of, 225, 342, 344, 345, 356, 393; Blair's rules for, 226

Allen, Gay Wilson: 446

Allen, John D.: 12n, 14n, 16n

Alnwick Castle, by Fitz-Greene Halleck: Poe's review of, 154

Alterton, Margaret: 18, 22

American Monthly Magazine: 207

American Museum, The: 210, 214, 215n

American Phrenological Journal: 131n, 144n, 145n

American Quarterly Review: 209

American Review, The: 337, 339, 381n

“Annabel Lee”: 348n

Annals of Phrenology: 131

Anthon, Charles: 160, 350n

Antigone: Poe's review of, 378-79

Arabesque: as literary term, 165n, 166n, 214

Arcturus: 275

Aristotle: influence on Poe, 221-22, 251

Art: as microcosm, 432; for art's sake, 451

Artist: duty of, 227-28; as agent of God, 414, 422, 426; God as, 418-20, 424

Artistic discipline: 382, 390-91

“Autography”: 99, 274n

Bailey, Philip J.: 339

Bakan, David: 140n, 147n

Ballads and Other Poems, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Poe's first review of, 292; second review of, 307, 311-13

Ballad, the: Poe's opinion of, 445

Baltimore American, The: 103

Barnaby Rudge, by Charles Dickens: Poe's review of, 289-91

Barrett, Elizabeth: 356-64, passim

Basler, Roy P.: 213n

Bate, Walter Jackson: 50, 59, 235n, 448

Baum, Paull Franklin: 445n

Beattie, James: 46, 47n, 236

Beckford, William: 68

Benton, Richard P.: 172n

“Berenice”: 61, 86, 189

Bezanson, Walter E.: 176n

Bielfeld, Baron: 234, 300

Biographia Literaria: 37, 49, 101n, 143n, 148n, 235, 237n, 343n

Bird, Robert Montgomery: 81, 85, 99, 173, 190

Bittner, William: 329n

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine: 5, 76, 95, 101n [[96n]], 175

Blair, Hugh: popularity of, 20, 21n; on taste, 39-40; on music and poetry, 43; on beauty, 44; primitivism of, 43, 54; on judgment, 55; admiration of Ossian, 56; on uniformity of taste, 126n; on style, 172; on figures of speech, 197, 198n; use of Aristotle, 222; on allegory, 226; on genius, 257; Poe's praise of, 277; on function of criticism, 280; on sublimity, 282n; on province of poetry, 311n

Books of Gems, The: Poe's review of, 168-71, 191

Brainard, John G. C.: Poe's review of, 281-83

Branch, E. Douglas: 106n, 268

Bridgewater treatises: 261n, 383

British quarterlies: reviewing practices of, 95-96

Broadway Journal, The: Poe finds post with, 353; acquires control of, 376; goes bankrupt, 395

Brooks, Cleanth: 20, 158, 164

Brooks, Nathan C.: 210, 214n

Brown, Charles Brockden: 175

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett: See Barrett, Elizabeth

Bruce, Philip. A.: 19n

Bryant, William Cullen: reviewed by Poe, 192-208, 388-89; metrical theory challenged by Poe, 338; mentioned, 7, 65n, 267

Buckley, Jerome H.: 339n, 358, 361

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward: reviewed by Poe, 122, 250; reviewed by Beverley Tucker, 125; compared with Dickens by Poe, 256; mentioned 68, 69, 190

Burke, Edmund: 20, 41

Burke, Kenneth: 438n

Burns, Robert: 156, 157n

Burton, Asa: 25, 26

Burton, William E.: 215-19, 247-48

Burton's Gentleman's Magazine: Poe's editorship of, 215-48; critical standards of, 218-19

Butler, Mrs. Frances Anne: reviewed by Poe, 83-85; mentioned, 80

Byron, Lord: 3, 4, 7, 77

Calavar, by R. M. Bird: Poe's review of, 72-74

Calhoun, Richard J.: 17n, 18

Campbell Killis: 72n

Canny, J. R.: 72n

Cash, W. J.: 7, 8n

Causality: phrenological definition of, 145

Causation: 434-35

Cervantes, Miguel de: 156, 157n

Chain of Being, the: 193n, 407

Channing, William Ellery: nephew of, reviewed by Poe, 337; mentioned, 102, 167n

Characterization: Poe's views on, 187-89, 260-61

Characters of Shakespeare, The, by William Hazlitt: Poe's review of, 384n

Charles O’Malley, The Irish Dragoon: Poe's review of, 294-95

Charvat, William: 20, 21n, 23n, 79n, 159n, 160n, 167n, 192n

Chiaroscuro: in Poe's criticism, 182- 83; in Poe's “Ligeia,” 210

Chinol, Elio: 448n

Chivers, Thomas Holley: 108, 334, 395

Chorley, Henry F.: 127

Clark, Harry Hayden: 17n

Clark, Lewis Gaylord: 120n, 132, 210, 265

Clark, Willis Gaylord: 136, 172, 209, 210

Clarke, Thomas C.: 334, 335

Clemm, Mrs. Maria: 86, 87n, 351

Cockton, Henry: 281

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor: Poe's borrowing from, 36, 37, 147; Poe disputes authority of, 37, 46-49; on effect of meter, 49; on truth in poetry, 50; defended by Poe, 102; on unity, 111, 113-14, 143; on sympathetic imagination, 121; Poe uses method of, 138, 142, 204; on reconciliation of opposites, 152, 206; Poe's praise of, 166-67, 168-69; organic theory of, 205; Poe's refutation of, 207, 234-37, 366-67; on imagination, 226, 227, 235; mentioned, 19, 23

“Colloquy of Monos and Una, The”: 29n, 90, 308-10, 406-10

Columbia Spy, The: Poe's letters to, 350, 351

Combe, George: 31, 32, 33, 140-41, 142n, 143n, 144n, 149

Compiler, The Richmond: Poe criticized by, 76, 86, 97, 160, 186

Composition: in landscape gardening, 430-31; in writing poems, 434-43

Conceit: 231, 233. See also Figures of Speech

Confessions of a Poet: Poe's review of, 75-76, 78, 97

Confessions of Emilia Harrington, by Lambert Wilmer: Poe's review of, 126-27

Conner, Frederick: 413n

Conti the Discarded, by Henry F. Chorley: Poe's review of, 127-30

Conventions: dramatic, opposed by Poe, 378-80; poetic, supported by Poe, 388

“Conversation of Eiros and Charmion, The”: 403

Conversations With Some Old Poets, by James Russell Lowell: Poe's review of, 353

Cooke, George: 67

Cooke, Philip Pendleton: 9-16, passim, 63-65, 70, 161, 213n, 219, 391n [[381n]]

Cooper, James Fenimore: 73, 81, 100; reviewed by Poe, 220; reviewed by Burton, 220

Cosmology: Newtonian, 251

Courier and Daily Compiler, The: See Compiler, The Richmond

Cowley, Abraham: 168-69, 232

Cox, James W.: 177

Creative process: Poe's views on, 244, 332, 423-35, 427

Crichton, by W. H. Ainsworth: 270

Critic, the: duty of, 227; function of, 291, 295, 400-401

Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, by Christopher North: Poe's review of, 279-80

Critical Essays, by Thomas Babington Macaulay: Poe's review of, 262-63

Criticism: Poe's views on, 275-80; Blair on, 280; value of, 400

Croll, Morris W.: 446n

Culprit Fay, The, by Joseph Rodman Drake: Poe's review of, 135-54. See also Drake and Halleck, review of

Damsel of Darien, The, by William Gilmore Simms: Poe's review of, 229-30

Dante Alighieri: 156, 157n

Davidson, Edward: 35, 178, 403n, 419n

Davidson, Lucretia: reviewed by Poe, 267-68

Davidson, Margaret: reviewed by Poe, 268n

Davis, John D.: 132n

Davis, Richard Beale: 10, 18n, 19n, 78n

Dawes, Rufus: reviewed by Poe, 218, 331-33

Death: or Medorus’ Dream, by Robert Tyler: Poe's review of, 344-45

Defence of Poetry, A, by Percy Bysshe Shelley: 144n, 297

Defoe, Daniel: 120

Democracy: Poe's attitude toward, 308, 407

Democratic Review, The: 354

Dickens, Charles: reviewed by Poe, 162, 255, 269, 289

Didacticism in poetry: 259, 298-300, 311-12

Discipline, artistic: 227-28, 388-90

Disraeli, Isaac: 91

“Domain of Arnheim, The”: 14-15, 428-32

Domestic Manners of the Americans, by Mrs. Frances Trollope: Poe's review of, 161

Donne, John: 168-69, 232

Downing, Jack: See Smith, Seba

Drake, Joseph Rodman: 134, 157n

Drake and Halleck: Poe's review of, 138-54, 163, 190, 191, 199, 237, 404

Drama, the: Poe's criticism of, 221-22, 377-87; closet, 385n; conventions of, 378-80

Drama of Exile, The, by Elizabeth Barrett: Poe's review of, 356-64

Dunciad, The: 278

Duyckinck, Evert A.: 119, 288, 335

Eaton, Clement: 8, 9

Edinburgh Review, The: 63, 84, 95, 96; Poe's review of, 101

Edwards, Jonathan: 422

Elegy, the: 347-48

Eliot, T. S.: 146, 347, 368

Ellet, Mrs. E. F.: 67

English, Thomas Dunn: 395, 396

Emerson, Ralph Waldo: 7, 26, 30, 31, 144n, 316, 413, 414

Emotion, unity of: See Unity

Essay-review: Poe's opinion of, 262-63, 276-77

Eureka: 34, 351, 396, 407n, 414-19

Euripides (translation): Poe's review of, 89-90

Eveleth, George W.: 380n [[381n]], 395, 418n

Evil: problem of, 412

“Exordium”: 274-79

Fable for Critics, A, by James Russell Lowell: Poe's review of, 397

Fagin, N. Bryllion: 3n, 376, 384

Fairfield, Sumner Lincoln: 69

Fall in the Garden, the: 406, 429

“Fall of the House of Usher, The”: 164-65

Fancy: Poe's definition of, 370-71, 372, 373

Fantasy: Poe's definition of, 372

Fashion, by Mrs. Anna Cora Mowatt: Poe's review of, 377

Fay, Jay Wharton: 22n, 25n

Fay, Theodore S.: 95, 98, 168, 207, 265

Feidelson, Charles, Jr.: 21

Festus, by Philip J. Bailey: Poe's review of, 339n

Fiedler, Leslie: 187

“Fifty Suggestions”: 28n, 335n, 433n

Figures of speech: Poe on, 197, 202, 281-82, 242-43, 287; Blair's rules for, 198n

Fuller, Margaret: 398

Fouqué, De La Motte: 223

Gall, F. J.: 131, 142n, 145n

Genius, artistic: Poe's views on, 256-58, 269-70, 373, 424, 433n; Eighteenth Century views on, 257

George Balcombe, by Nathaniel Beverley Tucker: Poe's review of, 186-90

Georgia Scenes, by A. B. Longstreet: Poe's review of, 133

Gerard, Alexander: 257

Gifford, William: 77

Gilmer, Francis Walker: 228

Godey's Lady's Book: 354, 395

Gould, Miss H. F.: 104

Graham, George R.: 248, 249, 274n

Graham's Magazine: Poe's editorship of, 249-328; mentioned, 103, 224

Greek drama: 379

Griswold, Rufus Wilmot: replaces Poe on Graham's, 329; reviewed by Poe, 330-31; mentioned, 64

Grotesque (literary term): 166n

Grubb, Gerald: 255n, 289n, 291n

Guy Fawkes, by W. H. Ainsworth: Poe's review of, 270-72

Halleck, Fitz-Greene: 134, 151n [[157n]], 160, 338

Haney, John Louis: 96n

Harrison, James A.: 5n, 85

Harrison, Jesse Burton: 10

Hartley, David: 41

Hatvary, George E.: 354n

Hawks of Hawk Hollow, The, by R. M. Bird: Poe's review of, 99, 100

Hawthorne, Nathaniel: reviewed by Poe, 317-28; Poe's essay on, 391-94; mentioned, 38n, 184

Hayne, Paul Hamilton: 4n, 17n

Hazlitt, William: 121, 384n

Heartman, C. F.: 72n

Heath, James E.: 61-86 passim, 98, 160, 181n, 223

Hemans, Mrs. Felicia: 105, 106

History of the Navy, by James Fenimore Cooper: Poe's review of, 220

Hoffman, E. T. W. [[E. T. A.]]: 165n

Home as Found, by James Fenimore Cooper: reviewed by Burton, 220

Hood, Thomas: reviewed by Poe, 372-73

Hooker, Edward N.: 33

Horne, Richard Hengist: 339-44 passim, 362

Horse-Shoe Robinson, by John Pendleton Kennedy: Poe's review of, 80-83

Hubbell, Jay B.: 3n, 5n, 7n, 127n

Hull, William Doyle: 61n, 72n, 75, 110n, 178n, 179n, 180n, 181n, 208n, 352n

Hume, David: 21

Humor: Poe's definition of, 372

Hundley, David R.: 12n, 15, 18

Hungerford, Edward: 132n

Hunter, R. M. T.: 179, 180n

Hutcheson, Francis: 24, 31, 40, 139

Hyperion, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Poe's review of, 227

Ideality: function of, 140-43; equated with imagination, 146-47; Poe's examples of, 148-50

Imagination: Poe on, 145, 147, 157, 202-203, 206-207, 237, 366-67, 369-70, 374; Coleridge on, 121, 152, 206, 226, 227, 235; Eighteenth century definition of, 236

Imitation: in drama, 384; in the fine arts, 428; of nature, 430

Infidel, The, by R. M. Bird: Poe's review of, 85

Inklings of Adventure, by N. P. Willis: Poe's review of, 171-73

Inspiration: Poe on, 423, 435-36

Irving, Washington: 174, 176, 214, 267

“Island of the Fay, The”: 403

Jackson, David K.: 62n, 69n, 72n, 91, 110n, 125n, 134n, 178n, 179n, 180n, 181n, 185n

James, William: 27

Jefferson, Thomas: 10, 11, 23, 25, 26, 302

Jeffrey, Sir Francis: 20, 33, 39, 49n, 51, 52, 53, 57, 58, 77, 95, 112, 169-70

Joe Miller's Jests: 99n

Johnson, Dr. Samuel: 20, 84, 169, 222, 231, 232, 277, 371

Jones, William A.: 285n, 288

Joseph Rushbrook, by Frederick Marryat: Poe's review of, 268-69

Kames, Henry Home, Lord: popularity of, 20; on the moral sense, 24; on taste, 24, 25, 33, 42; on music, 42-43; on ideal presence, 45-46; on distinction between poetry and prose, 46, 47; on common human nature, 126n; defines sentiments, 253; praised by Poe, 277; on purpose of prose, 299n; on unity of emotion, 320-21

Kaplan, Sidney: 177n

Keats, John: 35, 37, 59, 77, 108, 155, 156, 301

Kelly, George: 162n

Kemble, Fanny: See Butler, Mrs. Frances Anne

Kennedy, John Pendleton: reviewed by Poe, 80-83; Poe's letters to, 86, 87n, 131; mentioned, 61, 63

Kepler, Johannes: 415-16

Knickerbocker, The: 65n, 132, 136, 140n, 157n, 210, 336

Lake School, The: 35, 281

“Landscape Garden, The”: 428

Lanier, Sidney: 444n, 446n

Laser, Marvin: 143n, 297n

Laurie, Henry: 20n

Lawson, Lewis A.: 166n

Legaré, Hugh Swinton: 4, 63

Lemonnier, Léon: 27n

“Lenore”: 348

Leslie, Eliza: 85

“Letter to B——”: 35n

Levy, Leo B.: 184n

“Ligeia”: 161, 210-13, 402, 404

Locke, John: 40, 45, 113n, 237

Lockhart, John Gibson: 96n

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth: reviewed by Poe, 227, 292, 353, 385; Poe's “war” with, 354; mentioned, 7, 59, 108, 244, 266

Longstreet, Augustus Baldwin: 133

Lovejoy, Arthur O.: 193n, 360

Lowell, James Russell: 7, 249, 353, 396-97, 413

Lubell, Albert J.: 115n, 162n

Lynchburg Virginian, The: criticizes Poe's reviewing method, 103

Lyric poem: 232, 233, 443. See also Music and poetry

Mabbott, T. O.: 72n, 83n, 126n, 331n

Macaulay, Thomas Babington: 262-63

McHenry, James: 65n

McKenzie, Gordon: 38, 46n, 236n [[, 236n]]

MacLeish, Archibald: 448

McLuhan, Herbert Marshall: 228n

Macpherson, James: 56

Mallarme, Stephane: 452

Manwaring, Elizabeth W.: 185n

“Marginalia”: 279, 354, 383, 424, 427

Marks, Emerson: 368n

Marryat, Frederick: 269

Marvell, Andrew: 171

Marx, Leo: 309n

Mathews, Cornelius: 275, 283, 335, 340, 398

Mattson, Morris: 122, 210

Meaning in poetry: 243, 342-43

Melancholy tone: 439-40

Mephistopheles in England: Poe's review of, 89

“Mesmeric Revelation”: 410-12, 414

Metaphor: 282. See also Figures of speech

Metaphysical poets: Poe on, 169-70

Metrics: Poe's views on, 282. See also Prosody

Microcosm: art as, 447

Miles, Mrs. L.: 31, 131-32, 142n, 149, 150n

Mill, John Stuart: 112, 358

Miller, Joseph (pseudonym): 99

Miller, Perry: 65n, 95n, 120n, 275, 285n, 335n, 387

Milton, John: 156, 157n, 169, 170

Minor, Lucian: 10-11, 19, 62, 70n, 71, 82n, 85-89 passim, 99, 131, 179

Moffitt, Cecil L.: 165n

Moldenhauer, Joseph J.: 312n

Moore, Thomas: 4, 234-43, 366

Moral sentiment: 148-55, 311

Moral sense, the: 24, 25, 26, 421

“Morella”: 402

Morris, George P.: 230-34, 351

Moss, Sidney P.: 65n, 95, 98, 120n, 157n, 172n, 297n [[354n]], 387

Mott, Frank Luther: 65n, 91, 106n, 132n, 215n, 249n, 376n

Mowatt, Mrs. Anna Cora: 377-78

Music and poetry: 41-48, 231-34

Mysticism: 357

Mystic, the: Poe on, 237-39

Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, The: 175-76, 207-208, 214

Narrative poem: 333-34, 442

National Melodies of America, by George P. Morris: Poe's review of, 230-34

Nationalism, literary: 135-36, 275-76

Night and Morning, by Edward Bulwer-Lytton: Poe's review of, 250-55

Nisbet, Ada B.: 272n

Newbern Spectator, The: criticizes Poe's reviews, 159

New-England Magazine, The: 132

Newton, Sir Isaac: 23, 416

New York Commercial Advertiser, The: 98, 136

New York Evening Mirror, The: 173

New York Mirror, The: Poe finds post on, 351-52; Poe sues for slander, 395; mentioned, 95, 97, 98, 171, 172

New York Review, The: 207

Norfolk Beacon, The: 104

Norman Leslie, by Theodore S. Fay: Poe's review of, 95, 97-98, 103, 136, 265

North American Review, The: 30n [[sic]], 63, 90, 101-102, 103, 167n, 181n, 196n [[, 394]] [[Note that the first entry is an error that should be under the next item — JAS]]

North, Christopher: [[30n, ]] 77, 133, 162, 279

Novel, the: Poe on, 252-55, 268-69, 271; mentioned, 73, 75, 124

Novelty: Poe on, 369-70, 392; Kames on, 370n

Old Curiosity Shop, The, by Charles Dickens: Poe's review of, 255-57

Orians, G. Harrison: 224n

Originality: 108, 229, 391-92

Orion, by Richard Hengist Horne: Poe's review of, 339-45

Orphicism: 341

Ortega y Gasset, José: 450, 452, 453

Osborn, Laughton: 75n

Osterweis, Rollin G.: 8

Ostrom, John Ward: 4n [[Note that this entry is misleading since most references, of which there are many, are merely to the Letters — JAS]]

Pantheism: 403-405, 418

Paradise Lost: 344n, 449

Parks, Edd Winfield: 17n, 73n, 124n

Partisan, The, by W. G. Simms: Poe's review of, 118-20

Passion in poetry: 343n, 346-47, 390-91

Pater, Walter: 448

Patterson, E. H. N.: 398

Paulding, James Kirke: 4, 160

Paul Ulric, by Morris Mattson: Poe's review of, 122, 123-24

Peckham, Morse: 306n, 315, 359, 375

Penn, The: 248

Perfectibility: human, 413

Peter Snook: Poe's review of, 182-83

Philadelphia Gazette, The: 98, 136, 209

Philadelphia Saturday Courier, The: 209

“Philosophy of Composition, The”: 434-43

Phrenology: 21, 31, 131-32, 140-47

Phrenology, by Mrs. L. Miles: Poe's review of, 131-32

Pickwick Papers, The, by Charles Dickens: 269

Pic Nic Papers, The: Poe's review of, 269-70

Picturesque convention: 184, 203

“Pinakidia”: 91

Pinkney, Edward Coote: 108

Plato: 139, 307-308, 310

Platonism: 296-97, 304-305, 367

Pleasure: as end of art, 37, 38, 43, 47, 49-50, 419, 422

Plot: Poe's definition of, 250-51; in drama, 383-85; in the universe, 407; perfection of, 427

Pochmann, Henry A.: 36n

Poe, Neilson: 86

Poe, Virginia: 86, 292, 336, 350, 395, 396

Poems, Fourth Edition, by William Cullen Bryant: Poe's review of, 192-208

“Poetic Principle, The”: 439

Pollin, Burton R.: 403n

Pope, Alexander: 156, 157n, 257

Potter, David: 20n

Powhatan: A Metrical Romance, by Seba Smith: Poe's review of, 263

Pritchard, John Paul: 34

Prosody: Poe on, 193-95, 338, 444-47

Quacks of Helicon, The, by Lambert Wilmer: Poe's review of, 263-64

Quarterly Review, The (London): 96n, 101

Quinn, Arthur Hobson: 36n, 165n, 208n, 217n, 266n, 284n, 334n, 352n

Quinn, Patrick: 177

Radcliffe, Mrs. Ann: 175

Randall, Helen Whitcomb: 21n

“Rationale of Verse, The”: 444-47

“Raven, The”: 348n, 441-42

Reid, Thomas: 139

Republic, The: 308, 408

Richards, I. A.: 144, 236n, 436, 437

Ridgely, Joseph V.: 177n

Rienzi, by Edward Bulwer-Lytton: Poe's review of, 122-24

Ringe, Donald A.: 203n

Robinson Crusoe: 120, 127

Robinson, E. Arthur: 164n

Romance: Poe defends, 223-24

Romantic aesthetics: compared with Poe's, 359-60; Poe critical of, 361

Royster, Sarah Elmira: 126

Rubin, Louis D., Jr.: 254n

Satanic School, the: 68n

Saturday Evening Post, The: 127

Schlegel, August Wilhelm: Poe's borrowings from, 90, 114, 237; on unity, 115-16; on symbolism and allegory, 238n; Poe's refutation of, 250-51; on ancients and moderns, 293n; mentioned, 19, 36n, 101, 111, 113, 156, 157n, 226, 241, 273, 377n

Schlegel, Friedrich: 297

Schneider, Herbert W.: 19n, 20n

Scott, Sir Walter: 4, 38n, 51, 165n

Scottish philosophers: 20-27 passim, 139, 303-304

Sedgwick, Catherine: 267

Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, third Earl of: 7, 24, 40, 45, 139

Shelley, Percy Bysshe: 30, 59, 148, 153, 155, 156, 297, 364, 365

Sheppard Lee, by R. M. Bird: Poe's review of, 173-74

Sigourney, Mrs. Lydia Huntley: reviewed by Poe, 104-16; mentioned, 66n, 67, 80, 118, 137, 156, 160, 163

Simile: 242, 282. See also Figures of speech

Simms, William Gilmore: 4n, 38n, 73, 81, 100, 118, 124n, 229

Smith, Samuel Stanhope: 22

Smith, Seba: 263

Smith, Sydney: 77

Snodgrass, Dr. Joseph E.: 210, 248, 265, 266, 329

Southern Literary Messenger, The: editorial standards of, 61-72; Poe's editorship of, 94-207; mentioned, 3, 4, 6, 7, 10, 17, 354, 397, 398

Southern Review, The: 4, 53, 54n, 63

Southey, Robert: 68n, 267

Spanish Student, The, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Poe's review of, 385

Sparhawk, Edward Vernon: 64n, 71, 80, 85, 94

Spasmodics, the: 339, 361

Spitzer, Leo: 189n

Sprague, Charles: reviewed by Poe, 255

Spurzheim, J. K.: 131-32, 140, 142n, 145

Stafford, John: 275n

Stanley Thorn, by Henry Cockton: Poe's review of, 280

Statesman's Manual, The: 204, 235

Stern, Madeleine: 410n

Stewart, Dugald: 22, 23, 28, 29n, 31, 32, 35

Stone, William L.: 136, 137, 138, 158, 161, 168, 172, 207, 265

Stovall, Floyd: 36n

Stylus, The: 396

Supernatural in fiction: 174-76

Symbolism: 315, 316, 346

Symposium, The: 307-308, 402, 440

Synaesthesia: 409, 410n

Tales of the Peerage and the Peasantry: 100

Taste (aesthetic sense): function of, 24-26, 33, 39, 40, 56n; Coleridge on, 293n; Poe on, 301-308; Thomas Jefferson on, 302; as guide to conduct, 407; relation of truth to, 420; mentioned, 113n, 142, 147, 156, 367

Tate, Allen: 8, 300, 315, 432, 448

Teleology of art: 297-308, 404, 420-22

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord: 337, 362-64, 388-90

Ten Thousand a Year, by Dr. Samuel Warren: Poe's review of, 272

Thomas, Frederick W.: 274, 283n, 292, 330, 334, 335, 398

Thompson, John R.: 398

Timrod, Henry: 17n

Tortesa the Usurer, by N. P. Willis: Poe's review of, 221-22, 382-83

Trollope, Mrs. Frances: 161

Tucker, George: 52, 67

Tucker, Nathaniel Beverley: relations with Southern Literary Messenger, 62-93 passim; relations with Poe, 96-120 passim; defends Poe to White, 109-10; criticizes Poe's satirical reviews, 117; reviewed by Poe, 185-90

Twice-Told Tales, by Nathaniel Hawthorne: Poe's review of, 317-28

Tyler, Robert: 284n, 334, 344

“Ulalume”: 348n, 441

Undine, by De La Motte Fouqué: Poe's review of, 223-26

Unity: discussed, 100-101, 205-206, 253, 259; Poe on, 111-16, 162-64, 245-46, 319; Coleridge on, 113-14, 245; Schlegel on, 115-16; Alison on, 321-23; Kames on, 321 Ups and Downs in the Life of a Distressed Gentleman, by W. L. Stone: Poe's review of, 161-62

Verisimilitude: 120, 127, 174-77, 377, 384

Victorian aesthetics: compared with Poe's, 358-61

Voices of the Night, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Poe's review of, 353

Vulgarity: Poe objects to, 230, 264

Waif, The, edited by Longfellow: Poe's review of, 353

Wakondah, by Cornelius Mathews: Poe's review of, 283-88

Walsh, Robert: 65n, 78, 209

Ward, William S.: 57n, 68n, 95n

Warren, Dr. Samuel: 272

Washington Telegraph, The: 102n, 103, 277n

Watkins Tottle, by Charles Dickens: Poe's review of, 162-64, 182

Welby, Mrs. Amelia: reviewed by Poe, 346-48

Wheelwright, Philip: 300

Whig: Poe as, 283, 381n

Whipple, Edwin Percy: 17n, 388

White, Thomas Willis: relations with Poe, 61-134 passim; Poe's letters to, 71n, 76n, 82n, 86n; mentioned, 160, 168, 178, 179, 180, 181n, 185, 186, 189n, 208, 209, 398; mentioned, 4, 5, 17

Whitman, Sarah Helen: 9, 396

Whitman, Walt: 228, 413, 414, 449

Wilbur, Richard: 213n

Willis, Nathaniel Parker: reviewed by Poe, 171-72, 221-22, 365-73, 382; employs Poe, 351-54; mentioned, 65n, 194, 196, 266

Wilmer, Lambert A.: 126, 263-64, 266

Wilson, Edmund: 438

Wilson, John: See North, Christopher

Wimsatt, W. K.: 34, 59

Winters, Yvor: 239

Wirt, William: 10, 18, 77, 78, 209, 228

Woodberry, George E.: 21

Wordsworth, William: Poe ridicules, 35-58 passim; Poe praises, 169; on imagination, 237

Yeats, William Butler: 155

Young America: 275, 286, 381n

Young, Edward: 257


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