Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe: Poems - Softcover

A very exciting reading of Poe, truly serious and liberated from many traditional critical and scholarly solemnities. . . . A rather nutty and completely necessary book.--John Hollander "New York Times Book Review "

The most refreshing and original volume of literary study to appear for a long time. . . . It will set a new style in literary criticism.--R. W. B. Lewis "American Scholar "

Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe is the exploration by a distinguished American poet and critic of his own lifelong fascination with the work of Edgar Allan Poe. Examining Poe's achievement as poet, as aesthetician, as inventor of the modern detective and science fiction genres, and as master of the psychological tale of terror, Hoffman revels in his subject. The result is a comprehensive, arresting interpretation of the oeuvre and a compassionate, personal portrait of its creator.