‘Selected Writings’, written by Edgar Allan Poe

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‘Selected Writings’, written by Edgar Allan Poe

Edited by David Galloway

And much of madness and more of Sin And Horror the Soul of the Plot

The lines from ‘Ligeia’ epitomize the familiar Poe, the arch-priest of Gothic horror, author of ‘The Masque of the Red Death’ and ‘The Pit and the Pendulum’. That Poe, unquestioned master of ‘the Grotesque and Arabesque’, is fully represented there, but the volume also includes generous selections from his poetry and critical writings. Together they amount to a portrait of a complex personality, that of a conscious aesthete, the most exotic of American writers, who was at the same time keenly engaged in an astonishing variety of interests. Nor are the ‘Grotesque’ tales the simple manipulations of terror that they are; David Galloway’s introduction reveals their author as a profoundly serious writer, whose investigations of extreme states of consciousness have a particular relevance for our time.

The cover shows a detail from ‘Oiseau’ by Odilon Redon (photo Jean-Pierre Leloir, Snark Interational)

The portrait of Edgar Allan inside the front cover is by Ismael Gentz

Literature

Pages: 539

Edgar Allan Poe. (1967) Selected Writings. England, The Penguin English Library.

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