Condition: Acceptable. Please see the images for more details. May show signs of wear such as:
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Cover art: Leonard Baskin
Blurb: “Edited by G. R. Thompson
"We need a new way of reading Poe, a way just as informed as the new readings of Mark Twain and Herman Melville, which in the last few decades have saved their works from consignment to the adolescent's book-shelf. We must divorce ourselves from the traditional Gothicist view of Poe... Almost everything that Poe wrote is qualified by, indeed controlled by, a prevailing irony in which the artist presents us with slyly insinuated mockery of both ourselves as readers and himself as
writer. The view of art (and life) informing both the tales and the poems, and to an extent the criticism... ambivalently and ironically explored the fads of the Romantic Age. All of Poe's fiction, and the poems as well, can be seen as one coherent piece-as the work of one of the greatest ironists of world literature....
"The present anthology includes works which represent the range of Poe's imagination, from the best of his comic and satiric works to the best of his Gothic works.... The fundamental ironic and skeptical consistency informing the seemingly diverse performance collected here is a remarkable literary achievement-perhaps one of the most remarkable of the nineteenth century." -G. R. THOMPSON, from the Introduction”