Poet Edgar Allan Poe: Alien Angel

by Jerome J. McGann

Book Overview

The poetry of Edgar Allan Poe has had a rough ride in America, as Emerson's sneering quip about "The Jingle Man" testifies. That these poems have never lacked a popular audience has been a persistent annoyance in academic and literary circles; that they attracted the admiration of innovative poetic masters in Europe and especially France--notably Baudelaire, Mallarm , and Val ry--has been further cause for embarrassment. Jerome McGann offers a...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 067441666X
• ISBN13: 9780674416666
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.8"