Edgar Allen Poe - "The Philosophy of Composition‪"‬

This paper is written for a seminar titled ""American Short Stories"", It discusses Poes Essay on how to write the perfect poem, a full analysis of ""the Raven"" is included (this analysis is NOT based on my own ideas - it is just facts that were mentioned in the seminar, in general I refer to one author but for citation please use e.g. ""Stovall, Floyed"" see list of works cited), after having discussed The philosophy"" and ""The Raven"" the paper tries to find out to what extent Poe created a poem according to his standards excerpt introduction: ""On the next pages we will have a look on Poe's ""The Raven"", his essay ""The philosophy of Composition"" and get in detail with questions like: What is his essay about and what was the author's intention writing an essay about the only way creating a fiction work Did Poe compose his ""Raven"" exactly that way or are there clues that Poe couldn't cope with his own ideas'"" Seminar paper aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich Amerikanistik - Literatur, Note: 2,3, Universität Koblenz-Landau (Institut für fremdsprachliche Philologien Anglistik), Veranstaltung: The American Short Story in the 19th Century, 6 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Englisch.""