where is an exact site online where i can find analysis and critical thinking on all of edgar allen poes poems...like notes about what the poem really means and thinks in the poem that are important etc ..thank you for ur time

-- Anonymous, January 05, 2003

Answers

For definitive and inclusive sources for your concerns I think that Thomas Ollive Mabbott's "Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Poems" recently reissued into softcover is still the most complete. I only found a few things missing that perhaps a good cruising of the internet might have helped in arcane matter and sources, like Mary Shelley's poem as influence for "To One in Paradise". While it is missing deep discussion of actual poetics it does get to the makings, the sources and the meanings of the poems, despite Poe's penchant for deliberate vagueness to preserve the centrality of mood over imagery.

-- Anonymous, January 06, 2003