Complete Poems

Poe, Edgar Allan; Mabbott, Thomas Ollive (EDT)

ISBN 10: 0252069218 / ISBN 13: 9780252069215

Verlag: University of Illinois Press, 2000

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 485144-n

Inhaltsangabe:

Although best known for his tales, Edgar Allan Poe himself thirsted for fame primarily as a poet. This volume, assembled by the eminent Poe scholar Thomas Ollive Mabbott, is the single most authoritative edition of Poe's poems ever published: 101 poems and their variants, including such gems as "The Raven," "The Bells," and "Annabel Lee," as well as previously uncollected poems, fragments, verses he published in reviews he wrote, and poems attributed to him.
In this exhaustive collection, Mabbott takes a fresh look at these texts, aiming "to present what [Poe] wrote, to explain why he wrote it, to tell what he meant when he wrote it (if that be in any way obscure), and to give a history of its publication." Containing the definitive poems as well as pertinent biographical background, full annotations, and a meticulous enumeration of successive texts and variants, Mabbott's edition stands as a firm foundation for Poe scholarship as well as for more general appreciation.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-49), preeminent American writer and literary critic, exerted a worldwide influence on literature through his short fiction and his theoretical statements on poetry and the short story. Thomas Ollive Mabbott, a faculty member of Hunter College for nearly forty years, worked on Poe's writings from the 1920s until his death in 1968.

 

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Complete Poems
Verlag: University of Illinois Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: New