Synopses & Reviews
Richards revises the prevailing portrayal of Poe as an isolated idiosyncratic genius, showing how he worked with contemporary female poets.
Table of Contents
Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Note on texts used; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. 'The poetess' the Poe's performance of the feminine; 2. Frances Sargent Osgood, Salon poetry, and the erotic voice print; 3. Sarah Helen Whitman, spiritualist poetics, and the 'Phantom Voice' of Poe; 4. Elizabeth Oakes Smith's 'Unspeakable Eloquence'; Coda: the raven's return.