An Index to Poe's Critical Vocabulary, (1966), title page and table of contents

Notes:

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It must be noted that this index does not cover all of Poe's writings, in part because it does not include the tales and poems, and even for criticism it includes only what Harrison collected, which was not complete. It also does not include such articles as “Doings of Gotham,” which was unknown to Harrison. Even for “Marginalia,” Harrison omitted two installments, so it is strongly suggested that readers also reference Burton Pollin's edition of The Brevities. For the letters, the index references only the 1948 edition, and therefore does not include the additional letters and expanded texts from the various supplements, the 1966 or 2008 editions.

The text for this electronic version of the book was taken from an original printed form, revised for XHTML/CSS and to follow our own formatting preferences. Pagination of the original edition has been included only for prefatory material, and not for the index sections. (It is presumed that there is no practical reason to refer to the pages within an index, and thus no justification for the visual interruption that is inherently necessary for internal page numbers.)

The table of contents is a reasonable representation of the table of contents from the original printing.

The dedication page reads as follows:

Note: Elizabeth Eaddy Dameron is the wife of J. Lasley Dameron and Mary Stagg is the wife of L. C. Stagg.