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Edgar Allan Poe

Scope|Circulating Books|Critical Sources|Periodicals, Journals, & Trade Publications|Web Sites

SCOPE:  Edgar Allan Poe was a romantic and symbolist poet. He was a master of the gothic atmosphere. His short stories and poetry are among the finest representations of American literature.

CIRCULATING BOOKS

Books of Edgar Allan Poes works are listed in the Baddour Library's on-line catalog under Poe, Edgar Allan and under individual titles, i.e. Selected Stories and Poems.

Books written by and about Edgar Allan Poe have the call number(s):
PS 2631
PS 2642
PS 2638
PS 2614
PS 2619

Some representative circulating books that are located upstairs in the library are:

May, Charles E. Edgar Allan Poe: A Study of the Short Fiction. Boston: Twayne, 1991.

Silverman, Kenneth. Edgar A. Poe: Mournful and Never-Ending Remembrance. New York: HarperPerennial, 1992.

Thomas, Dwight. The Poe Log: A Documentary Life of Edgar Allan Poe, 1809-1849. Boston,MA: G.K. Hall, 1987.

CRITICAL SOURCES

There are books in the Reference Collection that do not circulate, but pages may be photocopied. The following titles are appropriate to this topic:

REF PR 502.C85 Critical Survey of Poetry

REF PS 21.D5 Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol.3 Antebellum writers in New York and the South

REF PS 94.M34 1993 Masterpieces of American Literature

PERIODICALS, JOURNALS, & TRADE PUBLICATIONS

Gothic Studies

PERIODICALS, JOURNALS, & TRADE PUBLICATIONS

Click the links for a list of full text journals available through our databases in:

WEB SITES

Voice of the Shuttle
http://vos.ucsb.edu

Literary Resources on the Net
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/

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Updated 08/16/2007