Includes bibliographical references and index.

THE POETRY AND AUTHOR: On Poe's Poetry -- Steven Frye ; Biography of Edgar Allan Poe -- Mark Minor ; The Paris Review Perspective -- Juliet Lapidos for The Paris Review / CRITICAL CONTEXTS: Poe's poetry of the Exotic -- Brian Yothers ; Repetition and Remembrance in Poe's Poetry -- Jeffrey Scraba ; Ehyme and Reason in Poe and His Predecessors -- Matthew J. Bolton ; The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe: Their Critical Reception -- Robert C. Evans / CRITICAL READINGS: Edgar Allan Poe and the Nightmare Ode -- Dave Smith ; The Visionary Paradox: Poe's Poetic Theory -- G.R. Thompson ; Poe and the Poetics of Opacity: Or, Another Way of Looking at That Black Bird -- Richard Godden ; Quoting the Signifier "Nevermore": Fort! Da!, Pallas, and Desire in Language -- Daneen Waldrop ; Baudelaire and Poe -- Jonathan Culler ; Poe and Frances Osgood, as Linked Through "Lenore" -- Burton R. Pollin ; Poe and the Brownings -- Francis B. Dedmond ; Poe's Composition of Philosophy: Reading and Writing "The Raven" -- Leland S. Person, Jr. ; "The Poetess" and Poe's Performance of the Feminine -- Eliza Richards ; Edgar Allan Poe's Control of Readers: Formal Pressures in Poe's Dream Poems -- James Postema ; Poe and the Position of the Poet in Contempary Japan -- Keiji Minato / RESOURCES: Chronology of Edgar Allan Poe's Life ; Works by Edgar Allan Poe ; Bibliography ; About the Editor ; About The Paris Review ; Contributors ; Acknowledgments ; Index.