...(his italics).7 Poe reveals here the procedure by which he composed his poem "The Raven," work which "proceeded, step by step, to its completion with the...and rigid consequence of a mathematical problem." In another of his own analogies, it was written with the care required to produce a spectacular theatrical...

...considered a desideratum, is quite independent of any real or fancied interest in the thing analysed, it will not be regarded as a breach of decorum on...precision and rigid consequence of a mathematical problem. Let us dismiss, as irrelevant to the poem perse, the circumstance — or say the necessity —which,...

...generally known. It is my design to render it manifest that no one point in its composition is referrible either to accident or intuition — that the work...precision and rigid consequence of a mathematical problem. Let us dismiss, as irrelevant to the poem perse, the circumstance— or say the necessity— which,...

...popular and the critical taste," and his elaborate account in "The Philosophy of Composition" of how "the work proceeded, step by step, to its completion...precision and rigid consequence of a mathematical problem" (15). On Poe's tales as elite appropriations of the "popular irrationalism" of contemporary sensational...

...generally known. It is my design to render it manifest that no one point in its composition is refem'ble either to accident or intuition — that the work...precision and rigid consequence of a mathematical problem. Let us dismiss, as irrelevant to the poem per se, the circumstance — or say the necessity — which,...

...of control: "[N]o one point in its composition is referable either to accident or intuition. . . . [T]he work proceeded step by step, to its completion,...precision and rigid consequence of a mathematical problem. "Telling us that he has decided to construct a poem, he must define "a poem": It shall not be long;...

...is my design', he wrote, 'to render it manifest that no one point in its composition is referrible either to accident or intuition - that the work proceeded,...precision and rigid consequence of a mathematical problem' (14—15). There has been persistent conjecture that 'The Philosophy of Composition' was a deliberate...

..."The Raven": "It is my design to render it manifest that no one point in its composition is referrible either to accident or intuition— that the work proceeded,...precision and rigid consequence of a mathematical problem."7 On one hand, then, Poe seems quite comfortable characterizing the artistic process in terms...

...no one point in [the poem's] composition" would be "referrible either to accident or intuition . . . the work proceeded, step by step, to its completion...precision and rigid consequence of a mathematical problem" (14—15). And later, speaking of the necessity of originality, Poe notes that it "is by no means a...

...explicit about its intention: "It is my design to render it manifest that no one point in [the poem's] composition is referable either to accident or intuition...and rigid consequence of a mathematical problem." Poe claims to let the public "take a peep behind the scenes" and compares the creative process to a...