Edgar Allan Poe Annotated Bibliography

Poe, Edgar Allan, et al. The short fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: an annotated edition. University of Illinois Press, 1990.
Stuart and Susan Levine edited this source. An annotated edition that noted this poems meanings and themes based on his other works to show a pattern in Poe’s writings. It used his other works to show common themes and referenced the many works to back up their annotations. This proved that he liked to write about the psychological patterns that Fyodor Dostoyevsky taught. Influenced by the study of psychological realism he showed this in his works like this one. This was a secondary source to show that he was not narrow in his thoughts of sane or insane but felt all humans had much deeper, darker thoughts and it was natural to want to experiment with the psychology of life, death and the afterlife. Many high school and college English teachers recommended this book as a way to teach students about Poe and his writings.

Poe, Edgar Allan, and Barry Moser.

The tales of Edgar Allan Poe. Books of Wonder, 1991.
This book is a collection of Edgar Allan Poe’s work. I used it to read the short story, Tell Tale Heart and to get quotes from for paper. My dad had this book, as he loves the works of Edgar Allan Poe. The album that Alan Parsons Project released in 1976, Tales of Mystery and Imagination was his inspiration for becoming a lifelong Poe

fan.
Shen, Dan. “Edgar Allan Poes Aesthetic Theory, the Insanity Debate, and the Ethically Oriented Dynamics of “The Tell-Tale Heart”.” Nineteenth-Century Literature, vol. 63, no. 3, 2008, pp. 321–345., doi:10.1525/ncl.2008.63.3.321.
This is a detailed analysis of Poe’s works and my primary source for paper. It gave all possible meanings and themes for Tell Tale Heart. It included opposition ideas as well as, information to support my arguments for paper. It was thorough and in the end what led to my conclusion that Poe’s real theme in this short story was human mortality. Far more words and phrases used in story when analyzed, in this book, came back to human fascination with mortality, the dying process, and death. The idea of sanity or guilt being the main theme had fewer actual words and phrases that lead to that conclusion. Until reading this analysis my idea was that, the theme was guilt and its effect on people. Couldn’t get beyond his own heart beat leading to his confession but once researching this short story I seen it went way beyond that simple thought.