Selections from the Critical Writings of Edgar Allan Poe (1909), title page and table of contents

Notes:

Frederick Clarke Prescott (1872-1957) was an assistant professor of English at Cornell University beginning in 1897, becomming a full professor in 1919. He retired in 1940. His specialty was the Psychology of Poetry. He was born in Salinas, Kansas. He obtained his A. B. degree from Harvard in 1894, but did not proceed to a graduate degree. Prior to moving to Cornell, he was an instructor in English at Radcliffe College. In 1932, he was given an honorary Doctor of Human Letters from the University of Vermont.

The cover and spine gives the title of the book as Poe's Critical Essays.

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