Poe’s Woes
Julian Symons, 23 April 1992
Edgar A. Poe: Mournful and Never-Ending Remembrance
by Kenneth Silverman.
Weidenfeld, 564 pp., £25, March 1992,9780297812531 Show More
by Kenneth Silverman.
Weidenfeld, 564 pp., £25, March 1992,
“... any tinge of Gothic will have no time for the stories, those who find only windy rhetoric in Swinburne are likely to think ‘The Raven’ and ‘Ulalume’ merely ludicrous. But Auden’s remark about that verbose sentence is followed by his acknowledgment that it shows perfectly the narrator ‘in his real colours, as the fantastic self wno hates and ... ”