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Index
This index includes all proper nouns and general concepts discussed in the text. Works by Poe are entered by their titles. Names of other authors are indicated in parentheses after the titles of their works, Stories in which characters appear, furthermore, are indicated in parentheses after their names. Since all entries relate to Poe in some way, duplication is minimal.
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Absurdity: 29-30, 33, 34, 38, 45
Action, mental: 68
Adams, Henry: 47
Address on the Subject of a Surveying and Exploring Expedition (J. N. Reynolds): 105, 110
Adonis: 59
Agathon: 34
Agraffas: 96
“Aguri” (Junichiro Tanizaki): 202
Akutagawa, Ryunosuke: 194, 196, 199, 200, 201
“Al Aaraaf”: 8, 12, 55, 63, 151
Albany, New York : 114
Allen, Hervey: 185
Allusions, Poe's use of foreign: 98
Alnwick Castle with Other Poems (Fitz-Greene Halleck): 115
“Alone”: 9
American Art: Its Awful Altitude (John Frankenstein): 162
American Museum: 92
“Anastatic Printing”: 137, 139n
“Angel of the Odd, The”: 126, 128, 134
Annie (Mrs. Charles B. Richmond): 19, 206, 212
Anthon, Charles: 110
Appearance and reality, as theme: 128
Apocalypse, tales of: 47
“Arabesque”: 38
Arabia Petraea (J. L. Stephens): 108
Ariel (in Pym): 85, 86, 89, 90n
Aristidean, The: 188
Aristophanes: 34
Arnheim: 138
Arnold, Matthew: 47
Art of Fiction, The (Henry James): 52n
Arthur (Pym): 89
“Assignation, The”: 133
Astarte: 59,
Astoria (Washington Irving): 90n [[sic]], 105
Astrology: 70
“Athenaeum Gallery — Marble Basso Relievo — No. 244” (Jane Locke): 216-218
Atkinson's Casket: 141
Atlantic Ocean: 106
Atlas (Boston): 218
Auber, Daniel Francois: 41
Augustus (Pym): 89, 90n, 105, 106
“Autography, A Chapter on”: 143, 144, 185
“Autumn Mountain, An” (Ryunosuke Akutagawa): 201
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Babel, Tower of : 56
Bacchanals: 59
Bacchus: 60
Bacon, Francis: 138
Badger, Bela: 167
Baudelaire, Pierre Charles: 197
Ballads (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow): 16
Bancroft, George: 114
Bargain, with Devil, as theme: 126
Barnard, August: 85, 86, 87, 90n
Barrett, Elizabeth: 37
Beauchampe (William Gilmore Simms) Poe's review of: 145, 153, 157
Beauty: 8, 9, 12, 13, 25, 37, 117
Beckett, Samuel: 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 84, 90n
Beckford, William: 29
Bedloe (“A Tale of the Ragged Mountains”): 131
Beebe, Maurice: 136
Beechen Tree, The (Frederick W. Thomas): 187
Beirut: 57
Benedict, Ruth: 197
Benjamin, Park: 188
Berenice (“Berenice”): 130
“Berenice”: 14, 18, 23-24, 130, 133, 135, 143
Bible:
Bibliography of Translations, A: 197
Binns, Benhamin: 188
Biographia Literaria (Samuel Taylor Coleridge): 25, 117
“Black Cat, The”: 13, 48, 58, 128, 130, 184, 187
Black, John: 33
Blackwood, William: 95, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101
Blackwood's Magazine: 21, 26, 27n, 92, 94, 97
Blithedale Romance, The (Nathaniel Hawthorne): 93
Boston, Massachusetts: 216
Boston Athenaeum: 216
“Brandreth's Universal Vegetable Pills”: 97
Brady, Matthew: 175
“Breadcrust Papers, The” (George Lipard): 188
Breath (Samuel Beckett): 50
Breughel, Pieter the Elder: 57
“Bridal Ballad”: 130
“Bridge of Dreams, The” (Junichiro Tanizaki): 203
Briggs, Charles F.: 161
Broadway Journal: 92, 140, 148, 149, 151, 152, 153, 154, 159, 188
Brook Farm: 44
Brown, Charles Brockden: 29, 145, 153
Bryant, William Cullen: 149, 159n
Buranelli, Vincent: 54
Buried alive, as theme: 135-136
Burlesque, allegorical: 32
Poe's use of: 29
Burton's Gentleman's Magazine: 145
Butler, Samuel: 53n
Byron, George Gordon: 28, 29, 141
Byronic: 38
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Camus, Albert: 24
Capen, Nahum: 125n
Carlyle, Thomas: 29, 30, 45, 46, 52n, 185
Carpenter, William Henry: 148
“Case of M. Valdemar, The”: 143
Carter, Robert: 175
“Cask of Amontillado, The”: 13-14, 29, 48, 50, 76, 78, 81, 82, 129, 197
“Cassandra Southwick” (Allen J. Koppenhaver): 76
“Castle Dismal” (William Gilmore Simms): 153
Castle of Otranto, The (Horace Walpole): 26, 27n
“Caterpillar, The” (Edogawa Rampo): 199
Causality: 116
Cervantes, Miguel de: 94
Champollion, Jean Francois: 58
Charmion (Conversation of Eiros and Charmion”): 11
Chickens, Minorcan: 98
Chivers, Thomas Holley: 15, 158
“Christabel” (Samuel Taylor Coleridge): 117
Chrysanthemum and the Sword, The (Ruth Benedict): 197
City, destruction of: 55
“City in the Sea, The”: 9, 54-55, 56, 58
allegory in: 58
as dream world: 54
idolatry in: 59
moral theme in: 58
mystic symbols in: 54-61
objectivity in: 58
Clark, Lewis Gaylord: 150, 151, 155, 159, 163, 164
Clarke, James: 167
Clarke, Thomas C.: 174, 176, 177, 178, 181
“Claude”: 164
Claudel, Calvin: 58
“Cliff, The” (Edogawa Rampo): 198
Clothing, female fashions: 95
Cold Water Magazine, The: 182, 184
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor: 25, 29, 30, 33, 94, 115-116, 117, 119, 125n, 159n
Coliseum: 57
“Colloquy of Monos and Una, The”: 8, 12, 135, 137
Combe, George: 114-117, 118, 121, 125n
Conchologist's First Book, The: 96
Confession: on the Blind Heart (William Gilmore Simms): 145
“Confessions of an English Opium-Eater” (Thomas DeQuincey): 97, 102n
“Conquerer Worm, The”: 12
Conrad, Joseph: 13
“Conversation of Eiros and Charmion, The”: 11, 19, 138
Cooke, Philip Pendleton: 98
Cooper, James Fenimore: 145
Cosmic revelation: 29
Cosmogony, Poe's: 123
Cotton, John: 52n
Courier (Boston): 152
Cowper, William: 29
Criticism, psychoanalytic: 73n
Culprit Fay and Other Poems (Joseph Rodman Drake): 115
Culture myths, Greek: 43
Cushing, Caleb: 152
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Daily Advertiser (Boston): 93
Daily Journal (Boston): 216, 218
Daily Madisonian (Washington): 177
Dammit, Toby (“Never Bet the Devil Your Head”): 126
Damsel of Darien, The (William Gilmore Simms), Poe's review of: 143-144, 145
Darley, Felix O. C.: 164
David: 60
Davidson, Edward H.: 64, 68, 122, 124
Death: 89
and destruction: 7, 9, 10, 11, 15, 19
as reclamation of love: 65
living: 71
of loved one, as theme: 130
of physicality: 69
willed: 70
Democratic Review: 145, 153, 154
Demon: 10
Demosthenes: 95
“Descent into the Maelström, The”: 11, 96, 133, 134, 138, 198
Devil, on the loose, as theme: 126, 127
Dial, The: 94
Diana: (“How to Write a Blackwood's Article”) 98, (“A Predicament”) 101
Diary of a Mad Old Man (Junichiro Tanizaki): 202
Dictionary of Names and Titles in Poe's Collected Works (Burton Pollin): 58, 59
Dickens, Charles: 29
Diddier, Eugene L.: 206
“Diddling Considered as One of the Exact Sciences”: 129, 164
Dis, City of: 54
Disraeli, Benjamin: 29, 142, 149
Divine Comedy, The (Dante): 43
Divine will, Dante's concept of: 43
Doestoevsky, Fyodor: 45, 47, 198-200
“Domain of Arnheim, The”: 14, 19, 66, 138
Donne, John: 47
“Doom of the Drinkers, The” (Thomas Dunn English): 182, 184, 192n
Double, as theme: 130-131, 136
Dow, Jesse E.: 166, 175-179, 181, 192n
Doyle, Arthur Conan: 196
Drak [[Drake]], Joseph Rodman: 115
Dream of the Red Chamber, The (Chau Tsao): 195
Dreiser, Theodore: 44
Dupin (“Murders in the Rue Morgue”): 113, 114, 118, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 131, 132, 133, 184, 197
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East Indian Islands: 121
“Edgar Allan Poe” (D. H. Lawrence): 50
Edina: 102n
Edinburgh Magazine: 93
Effect, Poe's use of: 88
Egaeus (“Berenice”): 23
Egypt: 110
Eiros (“Conversation of Eiros and Charmion”): 11, 138
El: 58
“Eldorado”: 19
Eleanora (“Eleanora”): 8, 64, 66, 130, 203
“Eleanora”: 19, 65-66, 128, 130
Eliot, T. S.: 28
Ellet, Elizabeth Frieze (Mrs.): 155, 213
Emerson, Ralph Waldo: 13, 45, 53n, 140, 164
Endgame (Samuel Beckett): 49
English, Robert S.: 167, 172, 173
English, Thomas Dunn:
burlesque of Poe: 184-186
controversty with Whigs and Democrats: 170
fictional self-portrait: 183-184
his fictional portrait of Poe: 182-184
opposition to Poe's Customs-House appointment: 172-174
relationship to Irish Repeal Movement: 186-187
resentment of Poe's Washington behavior: 179-182, 184-185
revival of Poe's friendship: 188-189
rise in political influence: 168-169
Epictetus: 45
Epiphany: 45
Epistemology, Kantian: 67
Ermengarde (“Eleanora”): 65, 66, 130
“Ermina's Tale” (Jane Locke): 209, 210; text 210-212, 218, 219n, 220n
Essay Concerning Human Understanding (John Locke): 22, 25
Essentials of Salvation (Genshin): 195
Etana: 59
Ethics (Spinoza): 53n
Ethiopia: 110
Euphrates: 54
Eureka: 9, 13, 14, 16-17, 30, 66, 122-124, 130, 132, 134, 136-137
Eusebius: 59
Evening Mirror (New York): 147, 150
Evening Post (New York): 210, 218
“Everlasting No, The” (Thomas Carlyle): 46
Experience, Dantean, as theme: 138
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Fable for Critics, A (James Russell Lowell): 157
“Fairy-Land”: 9
Falk, Doris V.: 15
“Fall of the House of Usher, The”: 15, 17-18, 24, 29, 35, 48-50, 66, 71, 124n, 129, 131, 135-136, 197, 201
Fancy, Coleridge's: 115, 117, 119, 120
Faulkner, William: 51
Fichte, Johann Gottlieb: 29
Fitzgerald, F. Scott: 139n
Flos Aeris: 97
“For Annie”: 19
Fordham, New York: 62, 207, 220n
Fortunato (“The Cask of Amontillado”): 14, 29, 48, 76-83, 130
Forward, Walter: 167
Frailey, Dr. Charles S.: 178
Frankenstein, John:
Franklin, Benjamin: 46
Freedom, of characters: 48
French Cook, The (Louis-Eustache Ude): 98
From the Stone Age to Christianity (William Albright): 58
Fuller, Hiram: 155
Fuller, Margaret: 93
Furies: 97
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Gall, T. J.: 114
Gazette (Philadelphia): 164
“Ghost of a Grey Tadpole, The” (Thomas Dunn English): 184, 186
Gibbs, Josiah W.: 111
Gill, William T. [[F.]]: 177, 206
“Gleam” (E. A. Robinson): 9
Godey's Lady's Book: 153, 155, 156, 163
Goethe, Johan Wolfgang von: 47
“Gold Bug, The”: 128, 136, 164, 197
Golden Bough, The (James G. Frazer): 59
Golgotha: 51
Gothicism: 19, 21, 22, 23, 38, 42, 51
Graham's Magazine: 113, 117, 120, 121, 144, 145, 163, 169, 178, 185
Grampus (in Pym): 88, 89, 90n, 105, 106
Great Gatsby, The (F. Scott Fitzgerald): 139n
Greeley, Horace: 164
Greenough, Horatio: 216
Griswold Rufus Wilmot: 146, 147, 161, 168, 181, 192n
Grotesque: 32
Gulliver's Travels (Jonathan Swift): 47
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“Hall of Mirrors” (Edogawa Rampo): 198
Halleck, Fitz-Greene: 115
Hamlet (William Shakespeare): 44
Hammurabi: 59
Hardy, Thomas: 44
Harmony, Greek concept of: 36
Harrison, William (Pres.): 165-169
Hartford, Connecticut: 114
Haskins, Robert J.: 76
“Haunted Palace, The”: 69
Hawthorne, Nathaniel: 31, 32, 46, 47, 89, 90n, 93, 140, 144, 145, 152
Hayter, Alethes: 54
Hearn, Lafacadio: 201
Hebrew and English Lexicon (ed. Edward Robinson): 110
“Hell-Screen” (Ryunosuke Akutagawa): 194, 196, 200, 201
Hellenism, of Poe: 9
Herbert, Henry William: 146
Herbert Tracy (George Lippard):
Poe's review of: 189
Herodotus: 57
Hibbett, Howard: 202
Hicks (Pym): 90n
Hill, Theodore H.: 158
Hilton, James: 139n
Hiroshima: 51
Hirst, Henry B.: 182
Hoffman, [[E.]] T. A.: 29
Hogarth, William: 164
Holy Land: 109
Home Journal: 213, 218, 219n, 220n
Hood, Thomas: 29
“How to Write a Blackwood's Article”: 38, 92, 134
Hume, David: 68
Hunt, William Southworth: 172, 173
Hurlygurly, Tim (“King Pest”): 129
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Idealism: 29
Ideality: 25, 33, 37, 62-65, 66, 67, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 122, 125n
Identity, confused, as theme: 129, 137
transference of, as theme: 130, 137
Imagination: 64-65, 67-68, 118, 119, 120, 125n
“Imp of the Perverse, The”: 13, 127-128
Indian Ocean: 106
“Indian Serenade” (William Gilmore Simms), Poe's review of: 154
Ingram, John H.: 206
Inquisition: 21
Integrity, spiritual, loss of: 63
Introduction to Poe (Eric W. Carlson): 54
Inventiveness, Poe's: 97
“Invocation for Suffering Genius, An” (Jane Locke): 207; text 208, 209, 218, 219n
“Involuntary Experimentalist, The” (Anon. in Blackwood's, XLII [Oct. 1837], 487-492): 92
Irish Repeal Association: 186-187
Irony: 36
Irving, E.: 98
Irving, Washington: 105
Irwin, William H.: 169
Ishtar: 59
Israel: 60
lost tribes of: 108
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Jackson, Andrew: 170
James, Henry: 52n
Jane Guy (in Pym): 89, 106, 107
Japanese literature (contemporary):
hell, sufferings in: 195-196
man's evil nature in: 195-196
medieval influences on: 196
terror in: 194-195
Jefferson, Thomas: 52n
Jerusalem: 56
Johnson, Samuel: 43
Jones (Pym): 90n
Jones, John B.: 177
Journal of American Irish Historical Society: 184
Joyce, James: 44
Joyce John A. (Col.): 175
Judah: 60
Jupiter: 98
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Kant, Immanuel: 29, 67, 68, 94
Kaplan, Sidney: 53n, 109, 110, 139n
Keats, John: 29
Keith, Patrick: 97
Kennedy, John Pendleton: 114, 141, 143, 145, 185
Key, The (Junichiro Tanizaki): 202
Kinsman, The (William Gilmore Simms):
Poe's review of: 144
Knickerbocker, The: 102, 150, 151, 157, 157, 187
Krapp's Last Take (Samuel Beckett): 49
“Kubla Khan” (Samuel Taylor Coleridge): 97
Kurtz (Joseph Conrad's): 13
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