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Poe's writing reflected his literary theories, which he presented in his criticism and also in essays such as "The Poetic Principle". He disliked didacticism and allegory, though he believed that meaning in literature should be an undercurrent just beneath the surface. Poe also had a keen interest in cryptography and autography, writing several works on the subject.
Table of Contents:
Essays
The Philosophy of Composition
The Rationale of Verse
The Poetic Principle
Old English Poetry
A Few Words on Secret Writing
Maelzel's Chess Player
Eureka: A Prose Poem
Essays on American Literature
American Novel-Writing
Pay of American Authors
American Poetry
Essays of Criticism
Criticism
Drake and Halleck
Bryant's Poems
The Old Curiosity Shop
The Quacks of Helicon
Exordium
Ballads and Other Poems
Hawthorne's Twice-Told Tales
The American Drama
Marginalia
Other Essays
The Philosophy of Furniture
Some Secrets of the Magazine Prison-House
Literary Small Talk
Peter Snook
Palæstine
Some Account of Stonehenge
Anastatic Printing
Street-Paving
Letter to B??
Instinct Vs Reason ? A Black Cat
Byron and Miss Chaworth
Intemperance
Cabs
A Moving Chapter
Desultory Notes on Cats
A Chapter of Suggestions
Souvenirs of Youth
The Head of St. John the Baptist
Other Works
The Literati of New York
Autography
A Chapter on Autography
A Chapter on Science and Art
Fifty Suggestions
Pinakidia
Omniana
Doings of Gotham
Letters
The Life and Letters of Edgar Allan Poe
Biographies
Memorandum ? An Autobiographical Note
The Dreamer by Mary Newton Stanard
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was an American writer, editor, and literary critic, best known for his poetry and short stories of mystery and the macabre. He is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States.