Text: William C. Woolfson, “Flora Listings,” Flora and Fauna in the Works of Edgar Allan Poe (1992), pp. 115-119 (This material is protected by copyright)


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SOME MYTHICAL BEASTS AND MONSTERS IN THE WORKS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE

AKINETOS

Letter dated May 14, 1844 [G] :24/17

ANTAEUS

Loss of Breath [M] 2:79/44

ATTIS

Pinakidia 14:51/4

Marginalia 16:35/6

BACCHUS

Pinakidia 14:51/4

BULL OF PHALARIS

Loss of Breath [M] 2:66/10 “in a snore which would have put to blush the roarings of the bull of Phalaris”

The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether 6:71/26 “The trombones bellowed like so many bulls of Phalaris.”

A Decided Loss [M] 1:56/20 “bell metal bull of Phalaris”

CAMENAE

William Cullen Bryant (R) 9:305/8 “Such things are the province rather of Minerva than of the Camenae.”

CERBERUS

Bon-Bon 2:142/5

The Bargain Lost [M] 1:91/18 “Your Plato would have turned the stomach of Cerberus.”

CYCLOPS

Orion (R) 11:270/33 [page 116:]

DRAGON

The Fall of the House of Usher 3:293/28/34 “amazed to perceive a dragon of a scaly and prodigious demeanor”; “who slayeth the dragon, the shield he shall win”; 294/1 “and Ethelred uplifted his mace and struck upon the head of the dragon.”

Stephen's “Arabia Petraea” 10:12/15

Orion (R) 11:269/27; 270/16 “shapes of serpent and of dragon moved before him.”

Songs of Our Land (R) 12:258/16 “It was the oldest dragon of the fens.”

Mary E. Hewitt (R) 15:290/12

ELF

Oh, Tempora! Oh, Mores! [M] 1:12/90 “the stupid elf”

FEVER DEMONS

King Pest 2:172/3 “Pest-spirits, plague goblins, and fever demons were the popular imps of mischief.”

GARGANTUA

Hop-Frog 6:216/17 “He would have preferred Rabelais's “Gargantua” to the “Zadig of Voltaire”.”

Fifty Suggestions 14:170/7

The Quacks of Helicon (R) 10:194/16 “Literary Criticism” “Mrs. Wilmes must read the chapter in Rabelais's “Gargantua”.”

GENII

The Thousand and Second Tale of Scheherazade 6:101/11

GOBLIN

Drake-Hallek (R) 8:298/18; 299/6; 303/24

Memorials of Mrs. Hemens (R) 9:197/24 “She sallied forth at midnight anxious to encounter the goblin.”

Wm. Cullen Bryant (R) 9:287/15 “He (Bryant) fancies a goblin palace.”

GRIFFIN

Alciphron (R) 10:62/7/8

Orion (R) 11:209/16

N. P. Willis (R) 12:37/28/28/29; 15:13/21/21/22

Marginalia 16:114/15/17 [page 117:]

HAMADRYAD

Sonnet-to Science 7:22/10

HARPY

Never Bet the Devil Your Head 4:214/2

HIPPOGRAF

Orion (R) 11:269/16

HOMO-CAMELEOPARD

Four Beasts in One 2:210/3 “prostrating themselves before a gigantic cameleopard.”

HOTTE

The Thousand and Second Tale of Scheherazade 6:93/11

IMP

King Pest 2:172/4

Imp of the Perverse 6:145/title/1

Scenes from Politian 7:67/22/23

Drake-Halleck (R) 8:289/26

Letters 17:247/27

KRAKEN

Ms. Found in a Bottle 2:7/3 “No sound disturbed the slumbers of the Kraken.”

LEVIATHON

Report of Committee on Naval Affairs (R) 9:86/6 “waged a precarious warfare with the great leviathans of the deep, along the shores of Cape Cod and Nantucket.”

MARSYAS

A Decided Loss [M] 2:59/4 “to retouch his admiral painting of the ‘Marsyas Flayed Olive’ “

MYRMELEON

The Thousand and Second Tale of Scheherazade 6:92/25 footnote 2 — “The Myrmeleon = lion ant, such epithets as “monster lion”, “vast”, are comparative.” [page 118:]

NAIAD

Berenice 2:18/18 “Oh! Naiad among its fountains!”

Sonnet — To Science 7:22/12 “Hast thou not torn the Naiad from her flood, the elfin from the green grass, and from me the summer dream beneath the Tamarind tree?”

To Helen 7:46/8 “Thy Naiad airs have brought me home to the glory that was Greece and the grandeur that was Rome.” Alciphron (R) 10:66/36 “No Naiad voice addresses them from below.”

PAN

Four Beasts in One 2:208/14 “Ashimah — he is neither a Satyr nor much resemblance to the Pan of the Arcadians.”

PEGASUS

Unparalleled Adventures of Hans Pfaall 2:42/3 “And a horse of air”

PEST SPIRITS

King Pest 2:172/3 “Pest-spirits were the popular imps of mischief.”

PHOENIX

Fifty Suggestions 14:180/7

Henry Cary (R) 15:68/26

PLAGUE GOBLINS

King Pest 2:172/3 “Plague-goblins and fever demons were the popular imps of mischief.”

PRIAPUS

Pinakidia 14:51/3

ROC

The Thousand and Second Tale of Scheherazade 6:95/16

SATYR

The Assignation 2:112/11 “stood the satyr-like figure of Mentoni himself.”

Four Beasts in One 2:208/13

The Fall of the House of Usher 3:287/17 “passages about the old African Satyrs and Aegipons.” [page 119:]

The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq. 6:14/10

Stephen's “Arabia Petraea” (R) 10:12/18

Watkins Tottle 9:47/10

Orion (R) 11:273/32

Pinakidia 14:51/5; 60/11

Marginalia 16:35/7

SILENUS

Pinakidia 14:51/4

Marginalia 16:35/7

SIBYL

Ms. Found in a Bottle 2:13/2 “His grayer eyes are sibyls of the future.”

SYREN — SIREN

The Quacks of Helicon (R) 10:189/30/34 “ ”What song the Syrens sang”, it would puzzle Sir Thomas backed by Achilles and all the Syrens in Heathendom — What is the object of a Quarterly Reviewer?”

SPHINX

The Assignation 2:123/28 “The sphynxes of Egypt are outstretched upon carpets of gold.”

Some Words with a Mummy 6:134/27

The Sphinx 6:238/title/1

Autography 15:260/23

Marginalia 16:114/15/17

SYLPH

Berenice 2:18/16 “Oh! sylph amid the shrubberies of Arnheim!”

The Domain of Arnheim 6:196/13

Drake-Halleck (R) 8:291/22/29; 299/25

Alciphron: A Poem (R) 10:63/17


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Notes:

Dr. Woolfson consitently renders “Oh, Tempora! Oh, Mores!.” as “Oh, Tempore, Oh, Mores!.” This error has been corrected in the current presentation.

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