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Poems and poetics

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Main Author: Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849
Other Authors: Wilbur, Richard, 1921-
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Library of America, c2003.
Series:American poets project
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Physical Description:xxv, 179 p. ; 20 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-172) and index.
ISBN:1931082510 (alk. paper)
Author Notes:Read throughout the world, translated by Baudelaire, and admired by writers as different as Dostoevsky and H. G. Wells, Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) has become a legendary figure, representing the artist as obsessed outcast and romantic failure. His nightmarish visions, shaped by cool artistic calculation, reveal some of the dark possibilities of human experience. But his enormous popularity and his continuing influence on literature depend less on legend or vision than on his stylistic accomplishments as a writer.

Richard Wilbur (1921-2017), editor, was Poet Laureate of the United States, 1987-88. Over the course of a distinguished career he was awarded the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize (twice), and the Bollingen Translation Prize. Among his many books are New and Collected Poems (1989) and Mayflies (2000).

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