TIIE TIME. . TRANSCENDING POETRY OF EDGAR ALLAN POE 1\n Explanation of the Mechanics Poetic Speech This book has been awarded The Adele Mellen Prize fur its distinguished contribution to scholarship. THE TIME-TRANSCENDING POETRY OF EDGAR ALLAN POE An Explanation of the Mechanics of His Poetic Speech Slawomir Studniarz With a Foreword by Richard Kopley The Edwin Mellen Press Lewiston•Lampeter Library of Congress Cataloging •in-Publication Data Names: Studniarz. Slawomir, author. Tit~; The tiJne..transcending poetry of Edgar Allan Poe : an explanation of the mechanics of his poetic speech I Slawomir Studniarz ; with a foreword by Richard Kopley. Description: Lewiston, NY : The Edwin Mellen Press, 2016 I Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 20160162491 ISBN 9781495504594 (hardcover) I ISBN 149550459X (hardcover) Subjects: LCSH: P-0e, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849-Poetic worlcs. I Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849-Criticism and interpretation. I American poetry-19th century'-Histo:ry and criticism.! Poetics-History-19th centwy. Classification: LCC PS2642.P63 S78 20161 DOC 81l/.3-dc23 LC record available at htQ2§:/Ilccn.loc.gov/20 16016249 hors serie. A CIP catalog record for this book is available from the British Library. Copyright C 2016 Slawomir Studniarz All rights reserved. For information contact Tl}e Edwm Mellen Press The Edwin Mellen Press, Ltd B6x450 Lampeter, Lewiston, New York Ceredigion, Wales USA 14092-0450 UNITED KINGDOM SA48 8LT Printed in the United States of America * TABLE OF Chapter 2 Outlining the Territory 13 A Survey of the Critical Field 13 Statement of Methodological Premises 19 Chapter 3 Astarte's "'Duplicate 39 Duplicity and Deception in '"Ulalume" Chapter 4 Moment 80 Chapter 5 Apocaiypsis Figuris 133 Figure 1. Disintegration of an Artistic Mind: 134 "The Haunted Palace" Figure 2. The Doom of Humanity: 144 "The Conqueror Worm" 3. The Dominion Death: 156 "The City Sea" as a Demonic Bells" Figure 5. The Epitaph ·~rhe Valley 176 of Unrest" ,._,aa'"'"'""'" 6 Shadowy Glimpses, 190 Revelatory Flashes Apotheosis 244 301 Bibliography 306 Index 318 James Russell Lowen is amusing when he refers to Allan Poe in the 1848 A Fable for Critics as one like a book of iambs and pentameters, I In a way to make people of common-sense metres." And Waldo Emerson is empyrean speaking to William Howells in 1860, terms Poe jingle-man." nor hubris is a methodology nai:lfSiranmrn~ Poe's lyrical poetry. We need Poe guides us in the 1831 to B-": "Music, idea, is poetry.'" In the present volume, Studniarz discusses thoughtfully thoroughly - ·with a fuU understu'1ding of the scholar- ship that precedes him - both music idea, both sound in Poe's poetry. With regard to is meter, and He is especially sensitive to rer1eatect patterns of consonants as an indication of mean With regard to sense, the author explicates tone and allusion, and considers both the dark and the And ably clarifies the dymunic sound and sense in Poe's poetry, revealing poet's deft delicate Necessary language Poe's The poem's "Letter to is pleasure, and Studniarz's analysis offers insight the