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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. I've always loved Edgar Allan Poe, so I love this edition. It's nice to have the critical articles accompany the stories they're referring to.  lalaland | Mar 5, 2009 |  Fantastic collection of Poe-- over 1000 pages-- including his only novel, a very good selection of his poetry, a decent portion of his reviews, some notable literary criticism spanning Poe's time to current, and of course the tales. Poe fanatics may bristle at the selection, but overall a more than adequate selection of his major work. The introduction placing Poe in his political and historical climate for the reader is handy as well. (  ) ixion75 | Feb 17, 2006 |  no reviews | add a review
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"Backgrounds and Contexts" includes fifty-seven carefully chosen documents that illuminate Poe's prolific but short career, among them reviews, prefaces, and correspondence by Poe as well as thematic pieces dealing with Transcendentalism and alternative romanticism, sciences of the mind, sensation fiction, and the South and slavery.
Fourteen judiciously selected critical essays address Poe's poetry, fiction, politics, and psychology. Contributors include Floyd Stovall, Robert C. McLean, Richard Wilbur, James W. Gargano, Joseph J. Moldenhauer, Paul John Eakin, Grace Farrell, Liahna Klenman Babener, Barton Levi St. Armand, Joseph N. Riddel, J. Gerald Kennedy, John Carlos Rowe, Terence Whalen, and John T. Irwin.
A Selected Bibliography is also included.
About the series: No other series of classic texts equals the caliber of the Norton Critical Editions. Each volume combines the most authoritative text available with the comprehensive pedagogical apparatus necessary to appreciate the work fully. Careful editing, first-rate translation, and thorough explanatory annotations allow each text to meet the highest literary standards while remaining accessible to students. Each edition is printed on acid-free paper and every text in the series remains in print. Norton Critical Editions are the choice for excellence in scholarship for students at more than 2,000 universities worldwide.
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