Poe as a critic.

Edgar Allan Poe is generally accepted as the first important American critic. He was the first to establish definite principles of criticism, and he applied them to his own work as well as to his criticism of the work of others. He set forth these principles in The Philosophy of Composition, The Poetic Principle, and The Rationale of Verse, and supplemented them in later critiques. The greatest single influence on Poe was Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Poe also reflects the manner and method of Blackwood’s Magazine. He follows the romantic tendencies of the period. Poe’s critiques deal chiefly with the works of such contemporary authors as Longfellow, Hawthorne, Dickens, Tennyson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Halleck, and Drake. In these critiques he enlarges upon his own principles of criticism. In the Literati he reveals literary America of this century. The Marginalia shows his remarkable power of commentary. Through his criticisms, by which he first became known, Poe caused writers to have a greater consciousness of literary merit. Perhaps as a critic he has contributed more than any other writer to an appreciation of art-for-art's sake.

Name thesis:degree_name

M.A.

Level thesis:degree_level

Masters

Grantor

Baylor University.

Year dc:date.issued

1948

Author dc:creator

• Ballard, Ruby Thompson, 1906-

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Courtney, Luther W. (Luther Weeks)

• Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849.

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en

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https://hdl.handle.net/2104/14487

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