Complete Poems of Edgar Allan PoeHeritage Press, 1943 - 214 pages |
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Page 24
... half years . " Tamerlane " had been almost completely written and , half - concealed in its parable of Love against Power , it is not hard to detect Poe's unhappy wooing of Sarah Elmira Royster , who had become the well - to - do Mrs ...
... half years . " Tamerlane " had been almost completely written and , half - concealed in its parable of Love against Power , it is not hard to detect Poe's unhappy wooing of Sarah Elmira Royster , who had become the well - to - do Mrs ...
Page 172
... half of long , should be accented with a small 2 , placed beneath the syllable ; the last syllable , being long , should be unaccented : the whole would be thus ( control ) . In a trochee , these accents would be merely conversed , thus ...
... half of long , should be accented with a small 2 , placed beneath the syllable ; the last syllable , being long , should be unaccented : the whole would be thus ( control ) . In a trochee , these accents would be merely conversed , thus ...
Page 211
... half - the fifth the same - the sixth three and a half . Now , each of these lines , taken indi- vidually , has been employed before , and what originality the " Raven " has , is in the combination into stanza ; nothing even remotely ap ...
... half - the fifth the same - the sixth three and a half . Now , each of these lines , taken indi- vidually , has been employed before , and what originality the " Raven " has , is in the combination into stanza ; nothing even remotely ap ...
Contents
The Editors Commentary | 2 |
Spirits of the Dead | 14 |
A Dream | 22 |
Copyright | |
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