Reviews for Was Poe Immoral?: Edgar Allan Poe and His Critics

The average rating for Was Poe Immoral?: Edgar Allan Poe and His Critics based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-12-25 00:00:00 Gary Hernandez One of the most astonishing books of literary criticism that I have read in the last five years. Most good books I end up writing down one or two quotes in my little book; this one I had to switch over to adding tabs instead because I hit memorable quotes once or twice a page. I ended up purchasing a second copy for the express purpose of lending out to my friends.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-09-22 00:00:00 Amber Kurash It was OK. Not quite what I was expecting. Instead of a more historical look, this was literary criticism. It focused on a few works in great detail outlining the plot and interpretation. I found this uninteresting and skimmed a lot. The conclusions for these would have been more useful to me in an article format instead of a full-length book. I would have preferred a chronology of the way the subject has been handled from early American authors to the present. With the exception of Pet Sematary, there was nothing modern and I do not feel I have a good understanding of the modern trope of Native legends that appear as part of the narratives for many fiction and nonfictional paranormal stories.