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16%OFFJerome McGann - The Poet Edgar Allan Poe: Alien Angel - 9780674416666 - V9780674416666
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The Poet Edgar Allan Poe: Alien Angel

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Description for The Poet Edgar Allan Poe: Alien Angel Hardcover. Jerome McGann takes his readers on a spirited tour through a wide range of Poe's verse as well as the critical and theoretical writings in which he laid out his arresting ideas about poetry and poetics. In a bold reassessment, McGann argues that Poe belongs alongside Whitman and Dickinson as a foundational American poet and cultural presence. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 147 x 212 x 23. Weight in Grams: 406.

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, Mallarmé, and Valéry—has been further cause for embarrassment. Jerome McGann offers a bold reassessment of Poe’s achievement, arguing that he belongs with Whitman and Dickinson as a foundational American poet and cultural presence.

Not all American commentators have agreed with Emerson’s dim view ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
405g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674416666
SKU
V9780674416666
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99-50

About Jerome McGann
Jerome McGann is University Professor and John Stewart Bryan Professor of English at the University of Virginia.

Reviews for The Poet Edgar Allan Poe: Alien Angel
McGann succeeds in forcing us to rethink Poe’s poetry… Poe’s sound experiments, especially his strange variations on meter, deserve, as McGann shows by citing numerous rhythmic anomalies, to be taken seriously… In an age of predominantly, and purposely, flat and prosaic ‘free verse,’ mnemonic patterning is perhaps re-emerging as the emblem of poetic power. In this sense, Poe is once ... Read more

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