[Text: G. Richard Thompson, "Current Poe Studies," Poe
Newsletter, Vol. II, No. 1, January 1969, p. 24.]
[page 24, column 1:]
Current Poe Studies
.
Poe Checklist
.
J. Albert Robbins (Indiana University) is preparing for the Charles E.
Merrill Program in American Literature, a bibliographical checklist which
will present the basic resources for the study of Poe. Scheduled for publication
this year, the checklist will be followed soon by an introductory student
guide to the life and works of Poe.
Russian Studies of Poe
.
Eighty-one items on Poe from 1852 to 1963 are listed in Russian Studies
of America Literature: A Bibliography, to be published this year by
the University of North Carolina Press (Chapel Hill). The bibliography
was compiled by Valentina A. Libran (Gorky Institute, Moscow), translated
by Robert V. Allen (Russian Area Specialist, Slavonic Division of the Library
of Congress), and edited and adapted for American scholars by Clarence
Gohdes. (Poe items pp. 145-150.)
Descriptive Catalog of Poe MSS
.
Joseph J. Moldenhauer (University of Texas at Austin) has compiled a descriptive
catalog of Poe manuscripts at the University of Texas (including those
in the Koester collection) which will be published by the Humanities Research
Center this year.
Facsimiles Just Published
.
Two facsimile reproductions of three Poe editions have just been published.
1) An enlarged facsimile reproduction of the first impressions of Tales
(Wiley & Putnam, 1845) and of The Raven and Other Poems (Wiley
& Putnam, 1845) from copies in the Alderman Library, University of
Virginia, has been issued by the Charles E. Merrill Publishing Company
(Columbus, Ohio, 1969), with an Introduction (pp. v-xxvi) by Jay B. Hubbell.
2) A true-size facsimile reproduction of Prose Romances (William
H. Graham, 1843), prepared by George Hatvary and Thomas Ollive Mabbott,
has been published by St. John's University Press (Jamaica, New York, 1968),
with an Introduction (pp. i-vi) by Hatvary and a bibliographical census
of the five existing copies with front wrappers intact (p. vi) by Mabbott.
This facsimile is from the presentation copy to Francis J. Grund ("with
Mr Poe's respects" on title page), now in the Library of Congress.
Baltimore Poe Society Lecture
.
"The Battle of Poe's Biographers" was the topic of the 46th Annual Edgar
Allan Poe Lecture of the Poe Society of Baltimore, given by John C. Miller
(Old Dominion College, Virginia) at Westminster Church.
Poe Exhibition in Paris
.
A Poe exhibition was held in Paris from 21 November to 21 December 1968
at the Center for American Cultural Activities (Centre Cultural Américain,
3 Rue du Dragon, Paris — 6e) as a complement to a larger Baudelaire exhibition
which will continue through March 1969. A special Poe poster, after an
original gravure by Alexandre Alexeïff, consists of a double portrait
in which Poe looks as much like Baudelaire as Baudelaire himself.
Inauguration of the Center for Baudelaire Studies
.
The Center for Baudelaire Studies, recently established at Vanderbilt University,
will have its formal inauguration on 9 April 1969. Features of the ceremony
will be a colloquium and an exhibition devoted to Baudelaire and Poe. The
facilities of the Center should be of interest not only to Baudelaire scholars,
but also to persons engaged in the study of Poe as a world-author. Especially
noteworthy is the Center's unique collection of documents pertaining to
Poe's reputation and influence in France, Russia, and other countries of
Europe. Readers of the Poe Newsletter are invited to attend the
inauguration and to make use of the resources of the Center, by correspondence
or in person.
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