Complete Essays, Literary Criticism, Cryptography, Autography, Translations & Letters

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Poe's writing reflected his literary theories, which he presented in his criticism and also in essays such as «The Poetic Principle». He disliked didacticism and allegory, though he believed that meaning in literature should be an undercurrent just beneath the surface. Poe also had a keen interest in cryptography and autography, writing several works on the subject.

Table of Contents:

Essays

The Philosophy of Composition

The Rationale of Verse

The Poetic Principle

Old English Poetry

A Few Words on Secret Writing

Maelzel's Chess Player

Eureka: A Prose Poem

Essays on American Literature

American Novel-Writing

Pay of American Authors

American Poetry

Essays of Criticism

Criticism

Drake and Halleck

Bryant's Poems

The Old Curiosity Shop

The Quacks of Helicon

Exordium

Ballads and Other Poems

Hawthorne's Twice-Told Tales

The American Drama

Marginalia

Other Essays

The Philosophy of Furniture

Some Secrets of the Magazine Prison-House

Literary Small Talk

Peter Snook

Palæstine

Some Account of Stonehenge

Anastatic Printing

Street-Paving

Letter to B–

Instinct Vs Reason – A Black Cat

Byron and Miss Chaworth

Intemperance

Cabs

A Moving Chapter

Desultory Notes on Cats

A Chapter of Suggestions

Souvenirs of Youth

The Head of St. John the Baptist

Other Works

The Literati of New York

Autography

A Chapter on Autography

A Chapter on Science and Art

Fifty Suggestions

Pinakidia

Omniana

Doings of Gotham

Letters

The Life and Letters of Edgar Allan Poe

Biographies

Memorandum – An Autobiographical Note

The Dreamer by Mary Newton Stanard

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was an American writer, editor, and literary critic, best known for his poetry and short stories of mystery and the macabre. He is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States.