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KEY TO RECURRENT REFERENCES

	H	=	The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. James A. Harrison. 17 vols. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1902; rpts. New York, 1965, 1979.
	M	=	Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Thomas Ollive Mabbott. 3 vols. Cambridge, Mass., London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1969-1978; all 3 vols. rpt. in paperback, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000.
	O	=	The Letters of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. John Ward Ostrom. 2 vols. New York: Gordian Press, 1966.
	P	=	Collected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Burton R. Pollin. Vol. 1. Boston Twayne Publishers, 1981; Vols. 2-5. New York: Gordian Press, 1985-1997.

[[Although other abbreviations used throughout these essays are fairly standard, it might prove helpful to add a list here:

	AL	=	American Literature
	ELH	=	Journal of English History
	MLN	=	Modern Language Notes
	PQ	=	Philological Quarterly

These abbreviations generally follow those used by Dameron and Cauthen in their Edgar Allan Poe: A Bibliography (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1974). — JAS]]