...analytical powers. As a result, Poe chose to present the origination of "The Raven" in a contrary light. "It is my design to render it manifest that no one...and rigid consequence of a mathematical problem." He emphasized that logic dictated every choice, from the poem's length and themes down to single words...

...in general: "It is my design to render manifest that no one point in its composition is referrible either to accident or intuition — that the work...and rigid consequence of a mathematical problem."" No one point: there are no leaps, no breaks, no role for contingency, and no moments at all when any...

...the effect" as the principle of organisation. He describes his efforts with composition as proceeding "...step by step, to its completion with the precision...and rigid consequence of a mathematical problem." (Poe, 1983: 1081). Obviously not every genre of communication and art relies on linear structure in...

...intuition" (II.14). Poe, on the other hand, asserts that his creative imagination proceeds methodically, "step by step, to its completion with the precision and rigid consequence of a mathematical problem" (II.15). For a different view of the implications of the first pages of "Murders in the Rue Morgue,"...

...what seems to be the overweening narcissism of his claims to ratiocinative mastery, his insistence that "the work proceeded, step by step, to its completion...precision and rigid consequence of a mathematical problem" (ER, p. 15). Poe's formalism scandalizes here by virtue of its breezy indifference to everything outside...

...his essay "The Philosophy of Composition," "to render it manifest that no one point in [The Raven's] composition is referable either to accident or intuition...and rigid consequence of a mathematical problem." He goes on to explain how he systematically "solved for" each of the important variables of the poem:...

...werde: "[...] no one point in its composition is referrible either to accident or Intuition - [...] the work proceeded, Step by Step, to its completion...precision and rigid consequence of a mathematical problem" (Complete Works 14: 195). Die Vorstellung einer sich selbst genügenden, referenzlosen Poesie läßt...

...Baudelaire himself translated into French, had once tried to show how "The Raven," his best-known poem, "proceeded, step by step, to its completion with the...precision and rigid consequence of a mathematical problem."5 Saying of Poe that he subjected inspiration to method and analysis, Baudelaire held that...

...Poe is wearing his rationalist hat. "I select 'The Raven' as the most generally known," he commences. "It is my design to render it manifest that no one...and rigid consequence of a mathematical problem." This statement makes the project nice and clear. Poe is intent on denying the unconscious mind any...

...composition is referrable either to accident or intuition," he says about writing "The Raven." And further: "The work proceeded, step by step, to its completion...and rigid consequence of a mathematical problem." Although I envy Poe's ratiocinative confidence, I lack both when working on a poem and when thinking...