The Time Transcending Poetry Of Edgar Allan Poe: An Explanation of the mechanics of his poetic speech

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This works explores how Poe’s poems invite, and at the same time, require, specific interpretative procedures that not only duly recognize the prominence of sound in their design but also and primarily, put their sonority in the semantic perspective, bringing to light the close correspondence between sound and sense in Poe’s poetry. His poetic texts emerge as deeply polarized, torn between stark existential despair and the increasingly pronounced faith in the redeeming power of poetry. This thesis is reflected in the arrangement of the chapters. The study proceeds from the tragic disillusionment dramatized in “Ulalume,” through the dark and unflinching probings into the human condition in the poems discussed in the chapter “The Heuristic Moment,” the catastrophic vignettes presented in the chapter “Apocalypsis cu m figuris,” to the “shadowy glimpses” of the numinotic and the “revelatory flashes” of the cosmic law, and ultimately, to the sublimating and transcending vision pervading the poems examined in the final chapter “Toward a Poetic Apotheosis.”
Review
From the peer reviews:

“This is a valuable resource for scholars of nineteenth-century American literature in general and Poe Studies in particular. It is the first scholarly work to treat Poe’s poetic oeuvre seriously in its own right and, at the same time, to offer close critical readings of key poems.”

Professor William E. Engel, Department of English, Sewanee, The University of the South, TN.

“As a work of scholarship it is a remarkable achievement and it will be a valuable contribution to Poe studies, especially that apart of proposing a convincing and comprehensible discussion of the poet's vision of the universe it also offers exemplary analyses of single poems, involving all the textual levels and their interrelation.”

Professor Joanna Kokot, Department of English, University of Warmia and Mazury, Olsztyn.