What did some critics say about one of Poe's poems called "Dreams"? i need about 5 of them for a major project. I can't find any. Thanx and try to email me asap!

-- Anonymous, September 21, 2002

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-- Anonymous, September 22, 2002

You surely know that "Dreams" is one of Poe's earliest poems, figuring in the "Tamerlane and Other Poems" volume (1827), and never reprinted nor revised by himself. In 1828 however, it re-appeared in a paper of Baltimore with the signature "W. H. P.", viz. Poe's brother William Henry. Another poem from the same pamphlet, "The happiest day...", also suppressed, was reprinted too as William Henry's verses. Moreover, you know probably that the entire 1827- volume was silently left aside by Poe himself. Is it not possible that this fact could come from the simple reason that some of the effusions "by a Bostonian" were, in reality, the work of his brother? Just as the early volume of Tennyson's poetry? What I suggest here is well related by most of Poe's specialists (H. Allen, Mabbott, Campbell, Stovall...), but none of them doubt of the attribution of "Dreams" to Edgar A. Poe. Not the place here to be more investigating, and let's accept it in the canon. This is one thing. Now, about critics, criticism, analysis &c, of this piece. Poe is the ablest one to give you the deepest, clearest, keenest commentaries on it, you will see. Just take the whole small 1827-book (on line at www.eapoe.org), ten poems in all, and you will receive Poe's entire conception about "dreams", dreaming, visions, ecstatic feelings, deceiving realities, and the like, as a kind of unifying and leading idea pervading this very first book. You may complete your study with "Dream-land" (1844),the short preface to "Eureka" (1848), and, evidently, "A Dream within a Dream" (1849). In prose, you can catch many hints in Poe's own words amid such tales as "Eleonora", "The Angel of the Odd", "The Premature Burial", "Berenicë", as well as among the "Marginalia" series. I remember too a modern critic, R. Wilbur, who gave interesting views about "Dreams" in his small but conspicuous edition of Poe's "Poems" (a paperback - the "Laurel Series"). I think your project is effectively a major one... Good luck! Yours sincerely, Raven's Shade (Belgium).

-- Anonymous, September 23, 2002

Sorry for the mistakes. Instead of "In 1828...", please, read "Later in 1827..."; and erase the "of" following "doubt"...! Yours, Raven's Shade (Belgium).

-- Anonymous, September 24, 2002