Poe Studies (1971-1979)

Volume IV, Number 1 (June 1971)

Editor: G. R. Thompson (Washington State University); Associate Editors: Milton C. Petersen (Washington State University) and Kathleen McLean (Washington State University); Editorial Board: Richard P. Benton (Trinity College); Eric W. Carlson (University of Connecticut); Patrick F. Quinn (Wellesley College); Claude Richard (Université de Montpellier); Research Assistant: Judy Osowski (Washington State University)

• “Poe’s ‘sober Mystification: The Uses of Alchemy in ‘The Gold-Bug ”  by Barton Levi St. Armand  (pp. 1-7)
• “On Poe’s Use of ‘Mystery ”  by S. K. Wertz and Linda L. Wetz  (pp. 7-10)
• “The Grotesque: A Speculation”  by Donald H. Ross (pp. 10-11)
• “Poe’s Reception of C. W. Webber’s Gothic Western, ‘Jack Long; or The Shot in the Eye”  by Sanford E. Marovitz  (pp. 11-13)
• “Thoreau and the Deathwatch in Poe’s ‘The Tell-Tale Heart ”  by E. Arthur Robinson  (pp. 14-16)
• “Black Cat and White Cat: Richard Wright’s Debt to Edgar Allan Poe”  by Michel Fabre  (pp. 17-19)
• “Marginalia” (brief articles and notes)
  • ‘The ‘Moral’ of ‘Ligeia’ Reconsidered”  by Walter Garrett  (pp. 19-20)
  • “ ‘Ligeia’: The Story as Sermon”  by Kenneth T. Reed  (p. 20)

Volume IV, Number 2 (December 1971)

Editor: G. R. Thompson (Washington State University); Associate Editors: Milton C. Petersen (Washington State University) and Kathleen McLean (Washington State University); Editorial Board: Richard P. Benton (Trinity College); Eric W. Carlson (University of Connecticut); Patrick F. Quinn (Wellesley College); Claude Richard (Université de Montpellier); Research Assistant: Judy Osowski (Washington State University)

• “John Sartain and E. A. Poe”  by Richard Tuerk (pp. 21-23)
• “Poe’s Lowell Trips”  by Fred B. Freeman, Jr.  (pp. 23-24)
• “Poe’s Politian and the Beauchamp-Sharp Tragedy”  by William J. Kimball  (pp. 24-27)
• “Poe’s Debt to Father Bouhours”  by Edgar C. Knowlton, Jr.  (pp. 27-29)
• “Poe’s Literary Use of ‘Oppodeldoc’ and Other Patent Medicines”  by Burton R. Pollin  (pp. 30-32)
• “The Scornful Grin: A Study of Poesque Humor”  by J. Marshall Trieber  (pp. 32-34)
• “J. N. Reynolds Voyage of the Potomac: Another Source for The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym ”  by Daniel J. Tynan  (pp. 35-37)
• “Two Unrecorded Notices of Poe’s Parents”  by C. E. Frazer Clark, Jr.  (p. 37)
• “Edgar Allan Poe: Current Bibliography”  by Richard P. Benton  (pp. 38-44)
• “Fugitive Poe References: A Bibliography”  by Judy Osowski  (pp. 44-46)
• “Poe in Spanish America: Addenda and Corrigenda”  by Hensley C. Woodbridge  (p. 46)
• “Marginalia” (brief articles and notes)
  • “The Whereabouts of Poe’s ‘Fifty Suggestions’ ”  by George Egon Hatvary  (p. 47)
  • “An error in Some Reprintings of Poe’s 1847 Critique of Hawthorne”  by James B. Reece  (p. 47)
  • “The Date of Poe’s Burial”  by William T. Bandy  (pp. 47-48)

• Reviews
  • “ ‘New Approaches in Poe Criticism”  Review by E. Arthur Robinson (of New Approaches to Poe, A Symposium, edited by Richard P. Benton)  (pp. 48-50)
  • “Recent Findings in Poe”  Review by Charles Lombard  (of Discoveries in Poe, by Burton R. Pollin) (pp. 50-52)
  • “A German Scholar Interprets Poe” Review by George P. Clark (of Edgar Allan Poe: Ein Dichter zwischen Romantick und Moderne) (pp. 52-53)
  • “Poe and Psychoanalytic Criticism” Review by Llewellyn Ligocki  (of Psychoanalytically Oriented Criticism of Three American Poets: Poe, Whitman, and Aiken by Arthur Lerner.)  (pp. 54-55)
  • “Willis — and Poe” Review by Richard P. Benton (of Nathaniel P. Willis by Cortland P. Auser)  (pp. 55-56)
  • “The American Romance and Its Critics” Review by Charles N. Watson, Jr.  (of The Romance in America: Studies in Cooper, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, and James by Joel Porte.) (pp. 56-58)
  • “Lévy on the Gothic Novel” Review by Robert D. Hume (of Le Roman “gothique” anglais 1764-1824 by Maurice Lévy)  (pp. 58-59)

Volume V, Number 1 (June 1972)

Editor: G. R. Thompson (Washington State University); Associate Editors: Milton C. Petersen (Washington State University) and Kathleen McLean (Washington State University); Editorial Board: Richard P. Benton (Trinity College); Eric W. Carlson (University of Connecticut); Patrick F. Quinn (Wellesley College); Claude Richard (Université de Montpellier)

“The Fall of the House of Usher”: A Symposium

• “Usher Unveiled: Poe and the Metaphysic of Gnosticism”  (by Barton Levi St. Armand)  (pp. 1-8)
• “The Psycho-Sexual Reading of ‘The Fall of the House of Usher ” (by John L. Marsh)  (pp. 8-9)
• “Archetype and Reality in ‘The Fall of the House of Usher ” (by Colin Martindale)  (pp. 9-11)
• “Roderick Usher: Portrait of the Madman as Artist”  (by Gerald M. Garmon)  (pp. 11-14)
• “Poe’s Usher: Precursor of Abstract Art” (by H. Wells Phillips)  (pp. 14-16)
• “The Face in the Pool: Reflections on the Doppelgänger Motif in ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’” (by G. R. Thompson)  (pp. 16-21)
• Reviews
  • “Poe in the Marketplace” (Review by Robert C. McLean of Twentieth Century Interpretations of “The Fall of the House of Usher.” Thomas Woodson, ed.;  Edgar Allan Poe: “The Fall of the House of Usher.” Eric W. Carlson, ed.; and Twentieth Century Interpretations of Poe’s Tales. William L. Howarth, ed.)   (pp. 21-23)

• “ ‘The Fall of the House of Usher: A Checklist of Criticism Since 1960” (by Robert L. Marrs)  (pp. 23-24)

Volume V, Number 2 (December 1972)

Editor: G. R. Thompson (Washington State University); Associate Editors: Milton C. Petersen (Washington State University) and Kathleen McLean (Washington State University); Editorial Board: Richard P. Benton (Trinity College); Eric W. Carlson (University of Connecticut); Patrick F. Quinn (Wellesley College); Claude Richard (Université de Montpellier)

• “A Reconstruction of Poe’s 1833 Tales of the Folio Club: Preliminary Notes” (by Alexander Hammond) (pp. 25-32)
• “Splitting Poe’s ‘Epicurean Atoms: Further Speculation on the Literary Satire of Eureka” (by Harriet R. Holman) (pp. 33-37)
• “Some Sources for Poe’s ‘A Tale of the Ragged Mountains ” (by Mukhtar Ali Isani) (pp. 38-40)
• “Poe’s Wine List” (by L. Moffitt Cecil) (pp. 41-42)
• “ ‘An Incarnate Night-Mare: Moral Grotesquerie in ‘The Black Cat” (by Richard C. Frushell) (pp. 43-44)
• “Edgar Poe and the Philadelphians: A Reminiscence by a Contemporary” (by J. Albert Robbins) (pp. 45-48)
• “Thomas Low Nichols, Poe, and the ‘Balloon Hoax” (by Doris V. Falk) (pp. 48-49)
• “Poe in India: A Bibliography, 1955-1969” (by Sadanand R. Pavnaskar) (pp. 49-50)
• “Marginalia” (brief articles and notes)
  • “Conflict and Motive in ‘The Cask of Amontillado’ ” (by James E. Rocks) (pp. 50-51)
  • “Poetic Justice in ‘The Cask of Amontillado’ ” (by Kent Bales) (p.  51)
  • “Three Observations on ‘Amontillado’ and Lolita”(by William Goldhurst, Alfred Appel, Jr., and George P. Clark) (p. 51)
  • “ ‘The Murders in the Rue Morgue’ and ‘Doctor D’Arsac’: A Poe Source” (by Ian V. K. Ousby) (p. 52)
  • “An Arabian Source for Poe’s ‘The Pit and the Pendulum’ ” (by Athar Murtuza) (p. 52)
  • “A Further Word on Richard Wright’s Use of Poe in Native Son”   (by Linda T. Prior) (pp. 52-53)
  • “Classical Raven Lore and Poe’s Raven” (by John F. Adams) (p. 53)
  • “Devil Lore in ‘The Raven’ ” (by Byrd Howell Granger) (pp. 53-54)
  • “ ‘The Raven’ and the Chair” (by Miles D. Orvell) (p. 54)
  • “Lucretius and ‘The City in the Sea’ ” (by Daniel Driskell) (p. 54)
  • “Spenser and ‘The City in the Sea’ ” (by Christopher P. Baker) (p. 55)
  • “Dr. Maudsley, Forgotten Poe Diagnostician”  (By Mary C. Leibman) (p. 55)
  • “Another Mallarme-Manet Bookplate for Poe’s Raven” (by I. B. Cauthen, Jr.)  (p. 56)
  • “An 1839 Review of Poe’s Tales in Willis’ The Corsair” (by Burton R. Pollin) (p. 56)
  • “A Few Words of Clarification on ‘Hans Pfaal’ ” (by William H. Gravely, Jr.)  (p. 56)
  • “Thomas Ollive Mabbott on the Canon of Poe’s Reviews”  (by J. Lasley Dameron)   (pp. 56-57)

• Reviews
  • “Current Interpretations of Poe: Existential or Transcendent” (review by E. Arthur Robinson) (pp. 57-59)
  • “Fantastic Potpourri” (review by John E. Reilly) (p. 60)
  • “Poe’s Prosody in Perspective” (by Richard B. Eaton, Jr.)  (pp. 61-62)
  • “Poe and Baudelaire: Translations” (by Richard H. Haswell)   (pp. 62-63)

• “Current Poe Studies” (by G. R. Thompson) (p. 63)

Volume VI, Number 1 (June 1973)

Editor: G. R. Thompson (Washington State University); Associate Editors: Milton C. Petersen (Washington State University) and Kathleen McLean (Washington State University); Editorial Board: Richard P. Benton (Trinity College); Eric W. Carlson (University of Connecticut); J. Lasley Dameron (Memphis State University); Alexander Hammond (University of California at Los Angeles); Robert C. McLean (Washington State University); Joseph J. Moldenhauer (University of Texas at Austin); Burton R. Pollin (Bronx Community College of the City University of New York); Patrick F. Quinn (Wellesley College); Claude Richard (Université de Montpellier); William H. Shurr (Washington State University).

• “Poe at West Point — A Revaluation” by Karl E. Oelke (pp. 1-6)
• “Poe’s Devoted Democrat, George Lippard” by Emilio De Grazia (pp. 6-8)
• “Poe in Pillory: An Early Version of a Satire by A. J. H. Duganne” by John E. Reilly (pp. 9-12)
• “Charles Dickens and ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’ ” by Laurence Senelick (pp. 12-14)
• “Dickens and Poe: Pickwick and ‘Ligeia’ ” by Benjamin Franklin Fisher IV (pp. 14-16)
• “Jeffrey Aspern and Edgar Allan Poe: A Speculation” by J. Gerald Kennedy (pp. 17-18)
• “Emerson’s ‘Moral Sentiment’ and Poe’s ‘Poetic Sentiment’: A Reconsideration ” by Gerald M. Garmon (pp. 19-21)
• “Beauty and Truth: Poe’s ‘A Descent into the Maelstrom’  ” by Gerard M. Sweeney (pp. 22-25)
• “Marginalia” (brief articles and notes)
  • “The Philosophical Pattern of ‘A Descent into the Maelstrom’ ” by Christina J. Murphy (pp. 25-26)
  • “On the Whiteness at Tsalal: A Note on Arthur Gordon Pym” by Cordelia Candelaria (p. 26)
  • “A Note on ‘Annabel Lee’ ” by Julienne H. Empric (p. 26)
  • “ ‘Like Those Nicean Barks’: Helen’s Beauty” by Mario L. D’Avanzo (pp. 26-27)
  • “Poe and The Manuscript” by Gerald E. Gerber (p. 27)
  • “A Spurious Poe Letter to A. N. Howard” by Burton R. Pollin (pp. 27-28)
  • “Another Look at Poe’s Dr. Ollapod” by A. John Roche (p. 28)
  • “A Note on ‘The Bell-Tower’: Melville’s ‘Blackwood Article’ ” by Mildred K. Travis (pp. 28-29)
  • “Isaac Asimov’s Debt to Edgar Allan Poe” by Jack D. Wages (p. 29)
  • “A Borges Poem on Poe” by Robert Lima (pp. 29-30)

• Reviews
  • “Poe to the Seventh Power” Review by Kermit Vanderbilt (of Daniel Hoffman, Poe, Poe, Poe, Poe, Poe, Poe, Poe, Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, 1972.) (pp. 30-32)

Volume VI, Number 2 (December 1973)

Editor: G. R. Thompson (Washington State University); Associate Editors: Milton C. Petersen (Washington State University) and Kathleen McLean (Washington State University); Editorial Board: Richard P. Benton (Trinity College); Eric W. Carlson (University of Connecticut); J. Lasley Dameron (Memphis State University); Alexander Hammond (University of California at Los Angeles); Robert C. McLean (Washington State University); Joseph J. Moldenhauer (University of Texas at Austin); Burton R. Pollin (Bronx Community College of the City University of New York); Patrick F. Quinn (Wellesley College); Claude Richard (Université de Montpellier); William H. Shurr (Washington State University).

• “Reminiscences of Poe By an Employee of the Broadway Journal ” by Mukhtar Ali Isani (pp. 33-34)
• “Taine on Poe: A Neglected French Critic” by Thomas H. Goetz (pp. 35-36)
• “Current Poe Bibliography” by J. Lasley Dameron, Thomas C. Carlson, Judy Osowski and John E. Reilly (pp. 36-42)
• “Place Names in Poe’s Creative Writings” by Burton R. Pollin (pp. 43-48)
• “Marginalia” (brief articles and notes)
  • “Poe’s ‘Usher’ Tarred & Fethered” by Benjamin Franklin Fisher IV (p. 49)
  • “Is Roderick Usher a Caricature?” by Herbert F. Smith (pp. 49-50)

• Reviews
  • “Poe as Master Craftsman” Review by E. Arthur Robinson (of Stuart Levine, Edgar Poe: Seer and Craftsman, Deland, Florida: Everett/Edwards, 1972.) (pp. 50-52)

• “Current Poe Studies” (by G. R. Thompson) (p. 52)

Volume VII, Number 1 (June 1974)

­Editor: G. R. Thompson (Purdue University); Associate Editors: Milton C. Petersen (Washington State University); Kathleen McLean (Washington State University); Editorial Board: Richard P. Benton (Trinity College); Eric W. Carlson (University of Connecticut); J. Lasley Dameron (Memphis State University); James W. Gargano (Washington and Jefferson College); Alexander Hammond (University of California at Los Angeles); Robert C. McLean (Washington State University); Joseph J. Moldenhauer (University of Texas at Austin); Burton R. Pollin (Bronx Community College of the City University of New York); Patrick F. Quinn (Wellesley College); John E. Reilly (College of the Holy Cross); Claude Richard (Université de Montpellier); William H. Shurr (Washington State University)

• “The Aesthetics of Edgar Poe” by Pasquale Jannaccone (translated by Peter Mitilineos) (pp. 1-13)
• “The Mythic Initiation of Arthur Gordon Pym” by Kathleen Sands (pp. 14-16)
• “Usher’s Fear and the Flaw in Poe’s Theories of the Metamorphosis of the Senses” by Wendy Stallard Flory (pp. 17-19)
• “ ‘The Black Cat’ as a Study in Repression” by Roberta Reeder (pp. 20-22)
• “More on Lippard and Poe” by Burton R. Pollin (pp. 22-23)
• “Marginalia” (brief articles and notes)
  • “The Birthdate of John Henry Ingram” by John C. Miller (p. 24)
  • “William Cowper Brann on Edgar Allan Poe” by John L. Idol, Jr. (pp. 24-25)
  • “ ‘The Cask of Amontillado’: Montressor’s Revenge” by Shannon Burns (p. 25)

• Reviews
  • “Poe in Hungary” Review by Maurice Levy (of Andre Karatson, Edgar Allan Poe et le groupe des ecrivains du ‘Nyugat’ en Hongrie, Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1971) (pp. 25-26)
  • “Poe in Scandinavia” Review by J. Lasley Dameron (of Carl L. Anderson, Poe in Northlight: The Scandinavian Response to His Life and Works, Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1973) (pp. 26-27)

• “Current Poe Studies” by John E. Reilly (pp. 27-28)

Volume VII, Number 2 (December 1974)

­Editor: G. R. Thompson (Purdue University); Associate Editors: Milton C. Petersen (Washington State University); Kathleen McLean (Washington State University); Editorial Board: Richard P. Benton (Trinity College); Eric W. Carlson (University of Connecticut); J. Lasley Dameron (Memphis State University); James W. Gargano (Washington and Jefferson College); Alexander Hammond (University of California at Los Angeles); Robert C. McLean (Washington State University); Joseph J. Moldenhauer (University of Texas at Austin); Burton R. Pollin (Bronx Community College of the City University of New York); Patrick F. Quinn (Wellesley College); John E. Reilly (College of the Holy Cross); Claude Richard (Université de Montpellier); William H. Shurr (Washington State University)

• “Poe, Slavery, and the Southern Literary Messenger: A Reexamination” by Bernard Rosenthal (pp. 29-38)
• “John Neal and Edgar Allan Poe” by Benjamin Lease (pp. 38-41)
• “Poe’s Arabesque” by Patricia C. Smith (pp. 42-45)
• “The Exhumations and Reburials of Edgar and Virginia Poe and Mrs. Clemm” by John C. Miller (pp. 46-47)
• “Marginalia” (brief articles and notes)
  • “A Poe Hoax Comes Before the U.S. Senate” by David K. Jackson (pp. 47-48)
  • “A Further Word on Poe and Alexander Crane” by Mukhtar Ali Isam (p. 48)
  • “Taine on Poe: Additions and Corrections” by W. T. Bandy (p. 48)

• Reviews
  • “Style as Hoax” Review by Donald Barlow Stauffer (of Richard M. Fletcher, The Stylistic Development of Edgar Allan Poe, The Hauge: Mouton, 1973.) (pp. 48-50)
  • “Poe Phenomenologically” Review by Judy Osowski (of David Halliburton, Edgar Allan Poe: A Phenomenological View, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1973) (pp. 51-52)
  • “Neal, Poe, and Others” Review by Benjamin Franklin Fisher IV (of Benjamin Lease, That Wild Fellow John Neal and the American Literary Revolution, Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1972) (pp. 52-54)
  • “Poe’s French Critics” Review by Maurice Levy (by Jean Alexander. Affidavits of Genius: Edgar Allan Poe and the French Critics, 1847-1924, Port Washington, N. Y.: Kennikat Press, 1971) (pp. 54-55)

• “Current Poe Activities” by John E. Reilly (pp. 55-56)

Volume VIII, Number 1 (June 1975)

­Editor: G. R. Thompson (Purdue University); Associate Editor: Kathleen McLean (Washington State University); Editorial Board: Richard P. Benton (Trinity College); Eric W. Carlson (University of Connecticut); J. Lasley Dameron (Memphis State University); James W. Gargano (Washington and Jefferson College); Alexander Hammond (University of California at Los Angeles); Robert C. McLean (Washington State University); Joseph J. Moldenhauer (University of Texas at Austin); Burton R. Pollin (Bronx Community College of the City University of New York); Patrick F. Quinn (Wellesley College); John E. Reilly (College of the Holy Cross); Claude Richard (Université de Montpellier); William H. Shurr (Washington State University)

• “Poe and Lyric Conventions: The Example of ‘For Annie’ ” by J. M. Armistead (pp. 1-)
• “Poe’s ‘Dream-Land’: Nightmare or Sublime Vision?” Dennis W. Eddings (pp. 5-)
• “ ‘Ulalume’ — The Ghouls and the Critics” by David Robinson (pp. 8-)
• “Retapping Poe’s ‘Cask of Amontillado’ ” by Charles A. Sweet, Jr. (pp. 10-)
• “James F. Otis and ‘Autography’: A New Poe Correspondent” by Dwight Thomas (pp. 12-)
• “Current Poe Bibliography” by J. Lasley Dameron, Thomas C. Carlson, and John E. Reilly (pp. 15-)
• “Fugitive Poe References: A Bibliography” by Judy Osowski (pp. 21-)
• “Marginalia” (brief articles and notes)
  • “Native Son and ‘The Murders in the Rue Morgue’: An Addendum” by Seymour Gross (pp. 23-)
  • “Nicholas Nickleby in ‘The Devil in the Belfry’ ” by Burton R. Pollin (pp. 23-)
  • “Poe’s ‘Dream-Land’ and the Imagery of Opium Dreams” by James B. Reece (pp. 24-)

• Reviews
  • “The Whole of Poe” Review by Donald Barlow Stauffer (of Roger Forclaz, Le Monde d’Edgar Poe, Berne: Herbert Lang/Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 1974)
  • “Two Poe Bibliographies” Review by J. Albert Robbins (of J. Lasley Dameron and Irby B. Cauthen, Jr., Edgar Allan Poe: A Bibliography of Criticism, 1827-1967, Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1974 and Ester F. Hyneman, Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Bibliography of Books and Articles in English, 1827-1973, Boston: G. K. Hall & Co., 1974)
  • “Poe’s Reception in Russia” Review by J. Lasley Dameron and Tamara Miller (of Joan Delany Grossman, Edgar Allan Poe in Russia: A Study in Legend and Literary Influence, Colloquium Slavicum 3, Wutzburg: Jal-Werlag, 1973)

Volume VIII, Number 2 (December 1975)

­Editor: G. R. Thompson (Purdue University); Associate Editor: Kathleen McLean (Washington State University); Editorial Board: Richard P. Benton (Trinity College); Eric W. Carlson (University of Connecticut); J. Lasley Dameron (Memphis State University); James W. Gargano (Washington and Jefferson College); Alexander Hammond (University of California at Los Angeles); Robert C. McLean (Washington State University); Joseph J. Moldenhauer (University of Texas at Austin); Burton R. Pollin (Bronx Community College of the City University of New York); Patrick F. Quinn (Wellesley College); John E. Reilly (College of the Holy Cross); Claude Richard (Université de Montpellier); William H. Shurr (Washington State University)

• “Animatopoeia: Morella as Siren of the Self” by Martin Bickman (pp. 29-32)
• “Three More Early Notices of Pym and the Snowden Connection” by Burton R. Pollin (pp. 32-35)
• “Another Source for Poe: Trelawny’s The Adventures of a Younger Son ” by George H. Soule, Jr. (pp. 35-37)
• “Further Notes on Poe’s Folio Club Tales” by Alexander Hammond (pp. 38-42)
• “Current Poe Bibliography” by J. Lasley Dameron, Thomas C. Carlson, John E. Reilly, and Judy Osowski (pp. 43-46)
• “Marginalia” (brief articles and notes)
  • “A Folklore Source for ‘The Man That Was Used Up’ ” by Elmer R. Pry (p. 46)
  • “Addendum to a Footnote: ‘The Bells’ ” by David K. Jackson (p. 47)
  • “Poe, Literary Soirees, and Coffee” by John D. Haskell (p. 47)

• “Current Poe Activities” by John E. Reilly (pp. 47-48)

Volume IX, Number 1 (June 1976)

­Editors: Alexander Hammond (Washington State University) and G. R. Thompson (Purdue University); Associate Editor: Kathleen McLean (Washington State University); Editorial Board: Richard P. Benton (Trinity College); Eric W. Carlson (University of Connecticut); J. Lasley Dameron (Memphis State University); James W. Gargano (Washington and Jefferson College); Robert C. McLean (Washington State University); Joseph J. Moldenhauer (University of Texas at Austin); Burton R. Pollin (Bronx Community College of the City University of New York); Patrick F. Quinn (Wellesley College); John E. Reilly (College of the Holy Cross); Claude Richard (Université de Montpellier); William H. Shurr (Washington State University)

• “ ‘The Singular Character of the Water’ ” by Jean Ricardou (pp. 1-6)
• “Oedipus and Orpheus in the Maelstrom: The Traumatic Rebirth of the Artist” by Mark M. Hennelly, Jr. (pp. 6-11)
• “Poe’s ‘Diddling’: More on the Dating and the Aim” by Burton R. Pollin (pp. 11-13)
• “Some Early Frost Imitations of Poe” by Andrew J. Angyal and Kent Ljungquist (pp. 14-16)
• “Another of Poe’s ‘Savans’: Edward Tatham” by Erich W. Sippel (pp. 16-21)
• “Marginalia” (brief articles and notes)
  • “ ‘Ligeia’ and ‘The Conqueror Worm’ ” by Michael Tritt (pp. 21-22)
  • “Two Notes: A Joseph H. Clarke Manuscript and Something about a Mr. Persico” by David K. Jackson (p. 22)
  • “Dickens’ ‘A Madman’s Manuscript’ and ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’ ” by Edward Strickland (pp. 22-23)
  • “Poe’s Friend Downey Identified” by G. W. Sherman (p. 23)
  • “A Possible Debt to Cooper” by Edward Craney Jacobs (p. 23)

• Reviews
  • “A German Edition of Poe” by Roger Forclaz (of Edgar Allan Poe, Werke, Herausgegeben von Kuno Shumann und Hans Doeter, 1966-1973) (pp. 24-26)
  • “Poe Manuscripts at Texas” Review by Richard P. Benton (of Joseph J. Moldenhauer, A Descriptive Catalog of Edgar Allan Poe Manuscripts in the Humanities Research Center Library, Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 1973) (pp. 26-27)
  • “AidgarPo Once Again” Review by Claude Richard of (W. T. Bandy, ed., Charles Baudelaire, Edgar Allan Poe: sa vie et ses ouvrages, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1973) (pp. 27-29)
  • “A Potpourri on Eureka” Review by Patrick F. Quinn (of Richard P. Benton, ed., Poe as Literary Cosmology: Studies on Eureka. A Symposium, Hartford, Connecticut: Transcendental Books, 1975) (pp. 29-31)

• “Current Poe Activities” by Richard P. Benton (pp. 31-32)
• “Editorial Announcements” (p. 32)

Volume IX, Number 2 (December 1976)

­Editors: Alexander Hammond (Washington State University) and G. R. Thompson (Purdue University); Associate Editor: Kathleen McLean (Washington State University); Editorial Board: Richard P. Benton (Trinity College); Eric W. Carlson (University of Connecticut); J. Lasley Dameron (Memphis State University); James W. Gargano (Washington and Jefferson College); Robert C. McLean (Washington State University); Joseph J. Moldenhauer (University of Texas at Austin); Burton R. Pollin (Bronx Community College of the City University of New York); Patrick F. Quinn (Wellesley College); John E. Reilly (College of the Holy Cross); Claude Richard (Université de Montpellier); William H. Shurr (Washington State University)

• “Gold in the Bug” by Jean Ricardou (translated by Frank Towne) (pp. 33-39)
• “ ‘The Purloined Letter’: A Theory of Perception” by Sergio L. P. Bellei (pp. 40-42)
• “Three More Contemporary Reviews of Pym” by J. Don Vann (pp. 43-44)
• “Cosmic Vision in Poe’s ‘Eleonora’ ” by E. Arthur Robinson (pp. 44-46)
• “Arthur Symons on Poe’s ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’ ” by J. Lasley Dameron (pp. 46-49)
• “Fugitive Poe References: A Bibliography” by Judy Osowski (pp. 49-51)
• “Addenda: Fugitive References, Poe and France” by T. H. Goetz (pp. 51-52)
• “Marginalia” (brief articles and notes)
  • “Did Edgar Allan Poe Really Sell a Slave? By John C. Miller (pp. 52-53)
  • “Poe’s Use of Jacob Bryant in ‘Metzengerstein’ ” by Susan and Stuart Levine (p. 53)
  • “Poe’s ‘The Spectacles’ and James’ ‘Glasses’ ” by Adeline R. Tintner (pp. 53-54)
  • “Bawdy Punning in ‘Three Sundays in a Week’ ” by Elmer R. Pry, Jr. (p. 54)
  • “Poe’s ‘Letter to B———’: A Query” by Thomas Thornburg (p. 54)

• Reviews
  • “A Question of Sacred Texts” by Patrick F. Quinn (of Claude Richard, ed. “Edgar Allan Poe et les textes sacres,” Delat, No. 1, Montpellier, France: Centre d’Etude et du Recherces sur le Ecrivains du Sud aux Etats-Unis, 1975) (pp. 55-57)
  • “Annotating Poe” by J. V. Ridgely (of Stuart ad Susan Levine, eds., The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition, Indianpolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., Inc., 1976 and Harold Beaver, ed. Edgar Allan Poe, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, Penguin Books, 1975) (pp. 57-59)

• “Current Poe Activities” by Richard P. Benton (pp. 59-60)

Volume X, Number 1 (June 1977)

­Editors: Alexander Hammond (Washington State University) and G. R. Thompson (Purdue University); Associate Editor: Kathleen McLean (Washington State University); Editorial Board: Richard P. Benton (Trinity College); Eric W. Carlson (University of Connecticut); J. Lasley Dameron (Memphis State University); James W. Gargano (Washington and Jefferson College); Robert C. McLean (Washington State University); Joseph J. Moldenhauer (University of Texas at Austin); Burton R. Pollin (Bronx Community College of the City University of New York); Patrick F. Quinn (Wellesley College); John E. Reilly (College of the Holy Cross); Claude Richard (Université de Montpellier); William H. Shurr (Washington State University)

• “Textual Analysis of a Tale By Edgar Poe” by Roland Barthes (Translated by Donald G. Marshall) (pp. 1-12)
• “Engraved Within the Hills: Further Perspectives on the Ending of Pym” by Daniel A. Wells (pp. 13-15)
• “The Word ‘Autorial’ in Poe’s Criticism: History and Implications” by Burton R. Pollin (pp. 15-18)
• “The Good Gray Poe: Poe’s Reburial and William Douglas O’Connor’s Forgotten Tribute” by Jerome Loving (pp. 18-21)
• “Current Poe Bibliography” by J. Lasley Dameron, Thomas C. Carlson, John E. Reilly, and Judy Osowski (pp. 21-27)
• “Marginalia” (brief articles and notes)
  • “The Influence of ‘Adonais’ on ‘Eleonora’ ” by Kent Ljungquist (pp. 27-28)
  • “A Poe Detractor Unmasked” by W. T. Bandy (p. 28)
  • “Montresor’s Audience in ‘The Cask of Amontillado’ ” by William H. Shurr (pp. 28-29)
  • “The True Birthdate and the Hitherto Unpublished Deathdate of Susan Archer Talley Weiss” by John C. Miller (p. 29)

• Reviews
  • “Art retrouve” Review by Burton R. Pollin (of Wilfried Satty, illustrator, The Illustrated Edgar Allan Poe, New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., 1976) (pp. 29-31)
  • “The American Face of Poe” Review by Donald B. Stauffer (of Claude Richard, directeur, Edgar Allan Poe, Paris: Editions de l’Herne, 1974, Cahier de l’Herne Series) (pp. 31-32)

Volume X, Number 2 (December 1977)

­Editors: Alexander Hammond (Washington State University) and G. R. Thompson (Purdue University); Associate Editor: Kathleen McLean (Washington State University); Editorial Board: Richard P. Benton (Trinity College); Eric W. Carlson (University of Connecticut); J. Lasley Dameron (Memphis State University); James W. Gargano (Washington and Jefferson College); Robert C. McLean (Washington State University); Joseph J. Moldenhauer (University of Texas at Austin); Burton R. Pollin (Bronx Community College of the City University of New York); Patrick F. Quinn (Wellesley College); John E. Reilly (College of the Holy Cross); Claude Richard (Université de Montpellier); William H. Shurr (Washington State University)

• “The Self, the Mirror, the Other: ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’ ” by Renata R. Mautner Wasserman (pp. 33-35)
• “ ‘The Duc De L’Omelette’ as Anti-Visionary Tale” by David H. Hirsch (pp. 36-39)
• “Play and Games: An Approach to Poe’s Detective Tales” by LeRoy L. Panek (pp. 39-41)
• “Marginalia” (brief articles and notes)
  • “Some Poe Debts to Irving’s Alhambra” by Barton Levi St. Armand (pp. 42-44)
  • “Poe’s ‘The Masque of the Red Death’ and Hawthorne’s ‘The Wedding Knell’ ” by Walter Evans (pp. 42-43)
  • “Demonology in ‘The Black Cat’ ” by Gayle Denington Anderson (pp. 43-44)
  • “A Man Named Bool: A Shadow on the Wall” by David K. Jackson (p. 44)
  • “The Mountains of the Moon in ‘Eldorado’ ” by Fredric M. Leeds (p. 44)

• Reviews
  • “Poe Texts in Transition” Review by Joseph J. Moldenhauer (of Benjamin F. Fisher IV, ed., Poe the Craftsman: The Changing Fiction. Essays in Honor of Richard P. Benton and Maureen Cobb Mabbott. The Library Chronicle, University of Pennsylvania, Spring 1976) (pp. 45-48)
  • “The Dual Vision of Edgar Allan Poe” Review by E. Arthur Robinson (of James W. Gargano, ed., A Poe Miscellany. Topic: 30, a Journal of the Liberal Arts, Washington and Jefferson College, Fall 1976) (pp. 48-50)
  • “Laying the Foundation” Review by John E. Reilly (of John C. Miller, Building Poe Biography, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1977) (pp. 51-52)

• “Editorial Announcements”

Volume XI, Number 1 (June 1978)

­Editors: Alexander Hammond (Washington State University) and G. R. Thompson (Purdue University); Associate Editor: Kathleen McLean (Washington State University); Editorial Board: Richard P. Benton (Trinity College); Eric W. Carlson (University of Connecticut); J. Lasley Dameron (Memphis State University); James W. Gargano (Washington and Jefferson College); Robert C. McLean (Washington State University); Joseph J. Moldenhauer (University of Texas at Austin); Burton R. Pollin (Bronx Community College of the City University of New York); Patrick F. Quinn (Wellesley College); John E. Reilly (College of the Holy Cross); Claude Richard (Université de Montpellier); William H. Shurr (Washington State University)

• “Reductive and Expansive Language: Semantic Strategies in Eureka ” by Alan C. Golding (pp. 1-5)
• “The Geometric Structure of Poe’s ‘The Oval Portrait’ ” by William J. Scheick (pp. 6-8)
• “Pym’s Narrative in the American Newspapers: More Uncollected Notices” by Burton R. Pollin (pp. 8-10)
• “Poe’s ‘Two Long Interviews’ with Dickens” by Sidney P. Moss (pp. 10-12)
• “Fugitive Poe References: A Bibliography” by Benjamin Franklin Fisher IV (pp. 13-14)
• “Marginalia” (brief articles and notes)
  • “ ‘Adonais’ and ‘Eleonora’ ” Reconsidered by Lou Ann Kriegisch (pp. 14-15)
  • “A Mallarme-Manet Bookplate in Providence” Barton Levi St. Armand (p. 15)
  • “Poe’s Invention of the ‘Psychological Autobiographists’ ” by Burton R. Pollin (pp. 15-16)

• Reviews
  • “Portrait of the Suffering Artist” Review by J. Lasley Dameron (of David Sinclair, Edgar Allan Poe, Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Littlefield, 1977) (p. 16)
  • “Poe in Europe: Recent French Criticism” Review by Patrick F. Quinn (of Helene Cixous, “Poe re-lu: une poetique du revenir,” Critique, 28, 1972, etc.) (pp. 17-20)

• “Editorial Announcements” (p. 20)

Volume XI, Number 2 (December 1978)

­Editors: Alexander Hammond (Washington State University) and G. R. Thompson (Purdue University); Associate Editor: Kathleen McLean (Washington State University); Editorial Board: Richard P. Benton (Trinity College); Eric W. Carlson (University of Connecticut); J. Lasley Dameron (Memphis State University); James W. Gargano (Washington and Jefferson College); Robert C. McLean (Washington State University); Joseph J. Moldenhauer (University of Texas at Austin); Burton R. Pollin (Bronx Community College of the City University of New York); Patrick F. Quinn (Wellesley College); John E. Reilly (College of the Holy Cross); Claude Richard (Université de Montpellier); William H. Shurr (Washington State University)

• “Poe, Empedocles, and Intuition in Eureka ” by Peter C. Page (pp. 21-26)
• “Burke’s Enquiry and the Aesthetics of ‘The Pit and the Pendulum’ ” by Kent Ljungquist (pp. 26-29)
• “ ‘Ulalume’ — A Platonic Profanation of Beauty and Love” by Lou Ann Kriegisch (pp. 29-31)
• “Current Poe Bibliography” by J. Lasley Dameron, Thomas C. Carlson, John E. Reilly, and Benjamin Franklin Fisher IV (pp. 32-38)
• “Fugitive Poe References: A Bibliography” by Benjamin Franklin Fisher IV (pp. 38-41)
• Reviews
  • “Mabbott’s Poe and the Question of Copy-Text” Review by Joseph J. Moldenhauer (of T. O. Mabbott, ed., Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe: Volumes II & III, Tales and Sketches, Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard Univ. Press, 1978) (pp. 41-46)
  • “A Miscellany for the Poe Devotee” Review by Burton R. Pollin (of Peter Haining, ed., The Edgar Allan Poe Scrapbook, New York: Schocken Books, 1978) (p. 46-47)
  • “A French Introduction to the Poetry” Review by Richard H. Haswell (of Edgar Poe, Poemes/Poems, Claude Richard, ed., Paris: Aubier Montaigne, 1978) (pp. 47-48)

• “Poe in Europe: Recent German Criticism” by Roger Forclaz (pp. 49-55)
• “Current Poe Activities” by Kent Ljungquist (pp. 55-56.)

Volume XII, Number 1 (June 1979)

­Editors: Alexander Hammond (Washington State University) and G. R. Thompson (Purdue University); Associate Editor: Kathleen McLean (Washington State University); Editorial Board: Richard P. Benton (Trinity College); Eric W. Carlson (University of Connecticut); J. Lasley Dameron (Memphis State University); James W. Gargano (Washington and Jefferson College); Robert C. McLean (Washington State University); Joseph J. Moldenhauer (University of Texas at Austin); Burton R. Pollin (Bronx Community College of the City University of New York); Patrick F. Quinn (Wellesley College); John E. Reilly (College of the Holy Cross); Claude Richard (Université de Montpellier); William H. Shurr (Washington State University)

• “Space and Symbol in the Tales of Edgar Allan Poe” by Gerhard Hoffmann (Translated by Elizabeth G. Lord) (pp. 1-14)
• “Poe’s Divine Spondee” by Martin Roth (pp. 14-18)
• “Marginalia” (brief articles and notes)
  • “Poe’s ‘Tekeli-li’ ” by David K. Jackson, Burton R. Pollin (p. 19)
  • “A Closer Source for the Goths in Poe’s ‘Letter to B——’ ” by James O’Neill (pp. 19-20)
  • “Poe’s Philosophy of Punctuation” by Barton Levi St. Armand (p. 20).
  • “The Identity of Maria Clemm’s Friend, the Judge” by David K. Jackson (p. 20)
  • “A Poe Play: The Treadwell Papers” by Louise Heck-Rabi (p. 20)

• Reviews
  • “In the Wake of Pym’s Narrative” Review by Patrick F. Quinn (of Richard P. Benton, ed., “Journey into the Center: Studies in Poe’s Pym,” American Transcendental Quarterly, No. 37, Winter 1978) (pp. 21-22)
  • “Lovecraft and Sullen Art” Review by Martin Bickman (of Barton Levi St. Armand, The Roots of Horror in the Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft, Elizabethtown, NY: Dragon Press, 1977) (pp. 22-23)
  • “Wallace, Poe, and Plagiarism” Review by Robert D. Jacobs (of George E. Hatvary, Horace Binney Wallace, Twayne United States Authors Series, Boston: G. K. Hall & Co., 1977) (pp. 23-24)

• “Editorial Announcements” (p. 24)

Volume XII, Number 2 (December 1979)

­Editors: Alexander Hammond (Washington State University) and G. R. Thompson (Purdue University); Associate Editor: Kathleen McLean (Washington State University); Editorial Board: Richard P. Benton (Trinity College); Eric W. Carlson (University of Connecticut); J. Lasley Dameron (Memphis State University); James W. Gargano (Washington and Jefferson College); Robert C. McLean (Washington State University); Joseph J. Moldenhauer (University of Texas at Austin); Burton R. Pollin (Bronx Community College of the City University of New York); Patrick F. Quinn (Wellesley College); John E. Reilly (College of the Holy Cross); Claude Richard (Université de Montpellier); William H. Shurr (Washington State University)

• “Art, Ambiguity, and the Artist in Poe’s ‘The Man of the Crowd’ ” by Ray Mazurek (pp. 25-28)
• “Poe and Miss Anna Blackwell” by John C. Miller (pp. 28-29)
• “Fortunato’s Premature Demise in ‘The Cask of Amontillado’ ” by Jay Jacoby (pp. 30-31)
• “Fugitive Poe References: A Bibliography” by Benjamin Franklin Fisher IV (pp. 31-34)
• “Marginalia” (brief articles and notes)
  • “Usher and Rosicrucianism: A Speculation” by Roberta Sharp (pp. 34-35)
  • “Woodrow Wilson and Julian Hawthorne on Poe: Letters from an Overlooked Scholarly Resource” by Burton R. Pollin (p. 35)
  • “‘The Man That Was Used Up’: Further Notes on Poe’s Satirical Targets” by Richard A. Alekna (pp. 36)
  • “A Possible Source for ‘The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar’ ” by Steve Carter (pp. 36-)

• Reviews
  • “Pseudo Science Fiction” Review by David Ketterer (of Taylor Stoehr, Hawthorne’s Mad Scientists: Pseudoscience and Science in Nineteenth-Century Life and Letters, Hamden Conn.” Shoe String Press, Inc, 1978 and Harold Beaver, ed., The Science Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe. Penguin Books, 1976) (pp. 37-39)
  • “The Poe Palimpsest” Review by Mark M. Hennelly (of Julian Symons, The Tell-Tale Heart: The Life and Works of Edgar Allan Poe, New York: Harper, 1978 and Wolf Mankowitz, The Extraordinary Mr. Poe, New York: Summit Books, 1978) (pp. 39-42)

• “Current Poe Activities” by Kent Ljungquist (p. 43)
• “John Carl Miller (1916-1979)” by James B. Reece (p. 44)
• “Editorial Announcements” (p. 44)