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The Annotated Poe

The Annotated Poe

Poe, Edgar Allan
Hayes, Kevin J.
Giraldi, William

Hardcover

Literary CriticismFiction Anthologies

Publisher Price: $45.00

ISBN10: 0674055292
ISBN13: 9780674055292
Publisher: Belknap Press
Published: Oct 26 2015
Pages: 440
Weight: 2.60
Height: 1.30 Width: 8.20 Depth: 9.70
Language: English

Edgar Allan Poe is perhaps America's most famous writer. Adapted many times to the stage and screen and an inspiration to countless illustrators, graphic novelists, and musicians, his tales and poems remain a singular presence in popular culture. (His most famous poem inspired the name of the NFL's Baltimore Ravens.) And then there is the matter of Poe's literary influence. How many things come out of Poe? Jorge Luis Borges once asked. And yet Poe remains misunderstood, his works easily confused with the legend of a troubled genius. Now, in this annotated edition of selected tales and poems, Kevin J. Hayes debunks the Poe myth, enables a larger appreciation of Poe's career and varied achievements, and investigates his weird afterlives.

With color illustrations and photographs throughout, The Annotated Poe contains in-depth notes placed conveniently alongside the tales and poems to elucidate Poe's sources, obscure words and passages, and literary, biographical, and historical allusions. Like Poe's own marginalia, Hayes's marginal notes accommodate multitudinous opinion he explains his own views and interpretations as well as those of other writers and critics, including Poe himself. In his Foreword, William Giraldi provides a spirited introduction to the writer who produced such indelible masterpieces as The Fall of the House of Usher, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, and The Black Cat.

The Annotated Poe offers much for both the professional and the general reader--but it will be especially prized by those who think of themselves as Poe aficionados.

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