Stuart Bertolotti-Bailey

The lengthy preface here explains my thinking behind this “time translation” of Edgar Allen Poe’s 1846 essay “The Philosophy of Composition,” so no need for any further note here other than to say thanks to the various students who commented on the translation when we discussed it during classes, and to James Langdon and David Reinfurt who also both responded to it along the way.

Lead image: A fragment from Poe’s original text as published in The Raven and The Philosophy of Composition (New York: Paul Elder and Company, 1907) – a complete scan of which is available here.

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