Article: A Catalogue of Selected Rhetorical Devices Used in the Works of Edgar Allan Poe.

The issue of Poe's "style" has long been a contentious one--and it remains so. Those who have found fault with his prose include Henry James, Yvor Winters, T. S. Eliot, Margaret Fuller, Mark Twain, Julian Symons, Harry Levin, and James M. Cox. Some of these have argued that Poe was a bad stylist and that his narrators all sound the same. Those who have championed him as a literary stylist, on the other hand--occasionally in extravagant terms--include James Russell Lowell, George Bernard Shaw, R.. D. Gooder, Donald Barlow Stauffer, Joseph R. McElrath, and James W. Gargano. I prefer to reside with this latter camp, some members of which have expressed the insight that Poe's ...

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