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Poe Newsletter, 1968-1970


Poe Studies / Dark Romanticism (founded as Poe Newsletter in 1968, and issued as Poe Studies 1971-1985) is published by the Washington State University Press and produced with the aid of the Humanities Research Center and the support of the College of Liberal Arts and the Department of English at Washington State University. The Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore is grateful to the publishers for permission to make available e-text versions of articles printed in selected volumes of this journal. It should be noted that information and views expressed in these articles reflect the research and opinions of the authors. Anyone who finds these articles of interest is encouraged to subscribe to Poe Studies / Dark Romanticism.


"Announcement for Poe Newsletter" (from the Newsletter of the American Council of Learned Societies, November 1967)




Volume I - 1968

Volume I, Number 1 (April 1968)

Editor: G. R. Thompson (Washington State University); Associate Editor: Milton C. Petersen (Washington State University); Editorial Board: Richard P. Benton (Trinity College); Eric W. Carlson (University of Connecticut); Patrick F. Quinn (Wellesley College); Claude Richard (Université de Montpellier); Research Assistant: Robert L. Marrs (Washington State University)

 
Volume I, Number 2 (October 1968)

Editor: G. R. Thompson (Washington State University); Associate Editor: Milton C. Petersen (Washington State University); Editorial Board: Richard P. Benton (Trinity College); Eric W. Carlson (University of Connecticut); Patrick F. Quinn (Wellesley College); Claude Richard (Université de Montpellier); Research Assistant: Robert L. Marrs (Washington State University)
  • "Marginalia" (brief articles and notes)
    • "Another Unknown Early Appearance of 'The Raven' "  by Claude Richard  (p. 30)
    • "A Whitman Parody of 'The Raven' "?  by Thomas L. Brahser  (pp. 30-31)
    • "Poe's Usher and Ussher's Chronology"  by Earl J. Wilcox  (p. 31)
    • "Faulkner and 'Helen' — Further Note"   by Aretta J. Stevens  (p. 31)
    • "Poe and the West — A Comment"  by Haldeen Braddy  (p. 31)
    • "A Western Obiturary of Poe"  by Herbert E. Arntson  (p. 31)
    • "The Diabetic Mr. Poe?"  by John S. Hill  (p. 31)


Volume II - 1969

Volume II, Number 1 (January 1969)

Editor: G. R. Thompson (Washington State University); Associate Editor: Milton C. Petersen (Washington State University); Editorial Board: Richard P. Benton (Trinity College); Eric W. Carlson (University of Connecticut); Patrick F. Quinn (Wellesley College); Claude Richard (Université de Montpellier); Research Assistant: Robert L. Marrs (Washington State University)
  • "Marginalia" (brief articles and notes)
    • ' "MS. Found in a Bottle' and The Folio Club"  by Claude Richard  (p. 23)
    • " 'Silence' and the Folio Club: Who Were the 'Psychological Autobiographists'?"  by G. R. Thompson  (p. 23)

 
Volume II, Number 2 (April 1969)

Editor: G. R. Thompson (Washington State University); Associate Editor: Milton C. Petersen (Washington State University); Editorial Board: Richard P. Benton (Trinity College); Eric W. Carlson (University of Connecticut); Patrick F. Quinn (Wellesley College); Claude Richard (Université de Montpellier); Research Assistant: Robert L. Marrs (Washington State University)
  • "Marginalia" (brief articles and notes)
    • "Poe's MS. Letter to Stella Lewis — Recently Located"  by John W. Ostrom  (pp. 36-37)
    • "Thomas Moore's Influence on 'Tamerlane' "  by Nancy Niblack Baxter  (p. 37)
    • "A Note on Poe and Pym in Melville's Omoo"  by Iola S. Haverstick  (p. 37)
    • "Poe's Raven, Faulkner's Sparrow, and Another Window"  by Robert H. Woodward  (pp. 37-38)
  • Reviews:
    • "The Poe 'Dictionary' "  Review by J. Albert Robbins (of B. R. Pollin, Dictionary of Names and Titles in Poe's Collected Works)  (pp. 38-39)
    • "Poe as 'Magazinist' "  Review by Milton C. Petersen (of M. Allen, Poe and the British Magazine Tradition)  (pp. 39-40)


Volume II, Number 3 (October 1969)

Editor: G. R. Thompson (Washington State University); Associate Editor: Milton C. Petersen (Washington State University); Editorial Board: Richard P. Benton (Trinity College); Eric W. Carlson (University of Connecticut); Patrick F. Quinn (Wellesley College); Claude Richard (Université de Montpellier); Research Assistant: Judy Osowski (Washington State University)
  • "Marginalia" (brief articles and notes)
    • "The Hidden Jew in Poe's 'Autography' "  by Alexander Hammond  (p. 55)
    • "Poe's 'Turkish Fig-Pedler' "  by Ben Harris McClary  (p. 56)


Volume III - 1970

Volume III, Number 1 (June 1970)

Editor: G. R. Thompson (Washington State University); Associate Editor: Milton C. Petersen (Washington State University); Editorial Board: Richard P. Benton (Trinity College); Eric W. Carlson (University of Connecticut); Patrick F. Quinn (Wellesley College); Claude Richard (Université de Montpellier); Research Assistant: Judy Osowski (Washington State University)
  • "Marginalia" (brief articles and notes)
    • "A Typographical Error in the B Version of Poe's 'Sonnet — To Science' "  David K. Jackson  (p. 21)
    • "An Error in Some Recent Printings of 'Ligeia' "  by June Davis and Jack L. Davis  (p. 21)
    • "Preposition and Meaning in Poe's 'The Spectacles' "  by Joel Salzberg  (p. 21)
    • "Letters, Signatures, and 'Juws' in Poe's 'Autography' "  by Roger O'Connor  (pp. 21-22) [Note; The original table of contents for this issue erroneously gives "Autobiography" in place of "Autography." The entry here is based on the title from the article, which is correct.]
    • "More on the 'Fig-Pedler' "  by Richard Schuster  (p. 22)
    • "More on 'The Angel of the Odd' "  by William T. Bandy  (p. 22)
    • "A Note on Fortuanto's Coughing"  by Joseph H. Harkey  (p. 22)

 
Volume III, Number 2 (December 1970)

Editor: G. R. Thompson (Washington State University); Associate Editor: Milton C. Petersen (Washington State University); Editorial Board: Richard P. Benton (Trinity College); Eric W. Carlson (University of Connecticut); Patrick F. Quinn (Wellesley College); Claude Richard (Université de Montpellier); Research Assistant: Judy Osowski (Washington State University)
  • "Marginalia" (brief articles and notes)
    • "Poe's Use of Page and Lore in 'Tamerlane' "  by Gordon J. Loberger  (pp. 37-38)
    • "Poe's Use of D'Israeli's Curiosities to Belittle Emerson"  by Burton R. Pollin  (p. 38)
    • "Poe and Charles Lamb"  by Wallace Nethery  (p. 38)
    • "An Echo of Poe in Of Time and the River"  by Larry Rubin  (pp. 38-39)
    • "T. S. Eliot on 'Poe the Detective' "  by Judy Osowski  (p. 39)
    • "A Further Word on Poe and Lolita"  by George P. Clark  (p. 39)



Abbreviations:


   The journal abbreviates frequently cited texts of Poe's writings. Citations are keyed as follows:
  • Works — Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. I, Poems; vol. I, Tales and Sketches 1831-1842; vol. III, Tales and Sketches 1843-1848, ed. T. O. Mabbott (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1969-1978).
  • Writings — Collected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Burton R. Pollin: vol. I, The Imaginary Voyages (Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1981); vol II, The Brevities; vol. III, The Broadway Journal: Text; vol. IV, The Broadway Journal: Annotations (New York: Gordian Press, 1985-1986)
  • Complete Works — The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. James A. Harrison (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1902; or rpt., New York: AMS Press, 1965)
  • Letters — The Letters of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. John Ward Ostrom (rev. ed., New York: Gordian Press, 1966.

Note:

    Every reasonable effort has been made to maintain the integrity of the texts presented here. Some of the words included in the original printed form of these articles, however, especially in names or titles of foreign items in the bibliographies, use unusual characters which are not part of standard browser fonts. Generally, these are common letters with special accents. When these characters have been encountered, the letter has been provided without the accent.

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