About the Book

This set comprises 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes.
This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by Routledge in October 1995.

Table of Contents:
Introduction; Tamerlane and Other Poems; 1: Poe's ‘Preface'; Alaaraaf, Tamerlane, And Minorpoems; 2: [John Neal], pre-publication notices in the Yankee and Boston Literary Gazette; 3: [John Neal], notice in the Boston Ladies' magazine; 4: Review in an unidentified Baltimore paper; 5: J ohn Hill Hewitt, review in the Baltimore Minerva and Emerald; Poems; 6: Notice in the New-York Mirror; 7: [John Neal], notice in the Morning Courier and New York Enquirer; The Young Magazinist; 8: Editorial in the Baltimore Saturday Visiter; 9: From reports in the Baltimore Saturday Visiter; 10: Editorial notices of Poe's tales in the Southern Literary Messenger; 11: Philip Pendleton Cooke, from a letter to Thomas White in the Southern Literary Messenger; 12: From the ‘Supplement' to theSouthern Literary Messenger; 13: From the ‘Supplement' to the Southern Literary Messenger; 14: From the ‘Supplement' to theSouthern Literary Messenger; The Narra Tive Of Arthur Gordonpym; 15: U nsigned review in the New-York Mirror; 16: [Lewis Gaylord Clark], review in the Knickerbocker Magazine; 17: Notice in the New York Albion; 18: Unsigned notice in Alexander's Weekly Messenger; 19: [William Burton],review in Burton's GentZeman's Magazine; 20: Unsigned notice in the New York Review; 21: From an unsigned review in the Torch; 22: From an unsigned review in the London Atlas; 23: From an unsigned review in the London Spectator; 24: Review in the London New Monthly Magazine; 25: Unsigned review in the London Monthly Review; Tales Of The Grotesque And Arabesque; 26: James E. Heath condemns Poe's ‘Germanism'; 27: Philip Pendleton Cooke, from letters to Poe; 28: Poe's ‘Preface'; 29: ‘Personal' and ‘Editorial Opinions'; 30: [Joseph Clay Neal], notice in the Pennsylvanian; 31: Notice in the Philadelphia Saturday Courier; 32: Unsigned notice in the Boston Morning Post; 33: [John Frost], review in Alexander's Weekly Messenger; 34: Unsigned notice in the New York American; 35: Notices in the New-York Mirror; 36: [Morton McMichael], notice in Godey's Lady's Book; 37: [James E. Heath], review in the Southern Literary Messenger; Prose Romances; 38: Unsigned notice in the Philadelphia Saturday Museum; 39: Unsigned review in the Pennsylvania Inquirer; 40: Notice in the Philadelphia Saturday Courier; 41: Notice in the Ladies' National Magazine; Some Popular Successes; 42: Discussion of ‘The Gold-Bug' in the Philadelphia Saturday Museum; 43: Poe's account of the reception of ‘The Balloon Hoax' in the Columbia Spy; (c) ‘The Raven' (1845); 44: Nathaniel Parker Willis, introductory note in the New York Evening Mirror; 45: George Hooker Colton, introduction to ‘The Ra ven' in the American Review; 46: Introductory note to ‘The Raven' in the Southern Literary Messenger; 47: Elizabeth Barrett comments on ‘The Raven' in letters to (a) Richard Riengist Horne, and (b) Poe; 48: [John Moncure aniel],ntroduction to ‘The Ra ven' in the Richmond Examiner; (d) ‘The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar' (1845); 49: ‘Mesmerism in America', London Popular Record of Modern Science; General Estimates; 50: James Russell Lowell, ‘Our Contributors — No. Xvii. Edgar Allan Poe' , Graham's Magazine; 51: Thomas Dunn English,‘Notes About Men of N ote', Aristidean; 52: Wil1iam Gilmore Simms, ‘Poe' s Poetry', Charleston Southern Patriot; Tales; 53: [Evert Augustus Duyckinck], notice in the New York Morning News; 54: [Margaret Fuller], review in the New York Daily Tribune; 55: [Charles Anderson Dana],review in the Harbinger; 56: Unsigned notice in the Spectator; 57: From a notice in the Atlas; 58: Rufus Wilmot Griswold, from ‘The Intel1ectual History, Condition and Prospects of the Country',Washington National Intelligencer; 59: From notices in the London Critic; 60: [Evert Augustus Duyckinck], review in the American Review; 61: Unsigned review in Graham's Magazine; 62: Thomas Dunn English/Poe, review in the Aristidean; 63: From a review in the Literary Annual Register; 64: [William Gilmore Simms], from an editorial review in the Southern and Western Magazine; 65: [Martin Farquhar Tupper], review in the London Literary Gazette; 66: E. D. Forgues from ‘Studies in English and American Fiction: the Tales of Edgar A. Poe', La Revue des deux mondes; 67: [William Henry Smith], from a review of ‘The American Library' in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine; The Raven And Other Poems; 68: [George Pope Morris], review in the New York Evening Mirror; 69: [Margaret Fuller], review in the New York Daily Tribune; 70: Thomas Dunn English, review in the Aristidean; 71: Unsigned review in the Boston Post; 72: John Sullivan Dwight, review in the Harbinger; 73: [Freeman Hunt] , notice in the Merchant's Magazine and Commercial Advertiser; 74: [Lewis Gaylord Clark], review in the Knickerbocker Magazine; 75: [Lucius Alonzo Hine],‘Edgar A. Poe', Cincinnati Quarterly Journal and Review; 76: [Thomas Kibble Hervey],review in the London Athenaeum; 77: [William Gilmore Simms],review in the Southern Patriot; 78: Unsigned review in the London Literary Gazette; 79: Unsigned review in the London Critic; 80: [Nathaniel Parker Willis], review in the National Press: A Home Journal; General Estimates; 81: William Gilmore Simms,‘From Our Correspondent', Southern Patriot; 82: [Evert Augustus Duyckinck], ‘An Author in Europe and America', Home Journal; 83: Philip Pendleton Cooke,‘Edgar A. Poe', Southern Literary Messenger; Eureka; 84: J ohn Henry Hopkins, report on ‘The Universe' in the New York Evening Express; 85: U nsigned notice in the NewY ork Evening Express; 86: [Epes Sargent] , notice in the Boston Transcript; 87: [John Henry Hopkins], review in the Literary World; 88: Unsigned notice in the New York Daily Tribune; 89: ‘Mr. Poe's Eureka', Home Journal; 90: Unsigned review in the New Church Repository, and Monthly Review; 91: Uohn Milton Emerson], from a review in the Amherst College Indicator; Obituary Notices; 92: [Rufus Wilmot Griswold], ‘Death of Edgar Allan Poe', New York Daily Tribune; 93: ‘Edgar A. Poe', unsigned obituary in the New York Journal of Commerce; 94: ‘Death of Edgar A. Poe', Baltimore Patriot; 95: ‘Death of a Poet', New York Organ; 96: N athaniel Parker Willis,‘Death of Edgar A. Poe', Home Journal; 97: Henry Beck Hirst,‘Edgar Allan Poe' McMakin's Model American Courier; 98: George Lippard, notice in the Quaker City; 99: [Charles J. Peterson],‘Mr Poe's Last Poem', Philadelphia Saturday Gazette; 100: Edward H.N. Patterson, ‘Death of Poe', and ‘Literary Fame', Oquawka Spectator; 101: John Reuben Thompson,‘The Late Edgar A. Poe', Southern Literary Messenger; The Works Of The La Te Edgar Allan Poe; 102: [Charles Frederick Briggs], preview in Holden's Dollar Magazine; 103: George Ripley, review in the New York Daily Tribune; 104: [Evert Augustus Duyckinck], reviews in the Literary World; 105: George Washington Peck, from a review in the American Whig Review; 106: [John Moncure Daniel], review in the Southern Literary Messenger; 107: George Rex Graham,‘The Late Edgar Allan Poe', Graham's Magazine; 108: John Neal, from ‘Edgar A. Poe', Portland Daily Advertiser; 109: Unsigned review in Peterson's Magazine; Views From Abroad; 110: From ‘Recent Poets of America', London Quarterly Review; 111: Charles Baudelaire, from ‘Edgar Allan Poe: His Life and Works', introduction to Les Histoires extraordinaires