图书介绍：Edgar Allan Poe's works， with their gothic and often obsessive themes， have had a significant influence on American literature. In this Norton Critical Edition， G. R. Thompson has fully introduced， annotated， and edited each text."Backgrounds and Contexts" includes fifty-seven carefully chosen documents that illuminate Poe's prolific but short career， among them reviews， prefaces， and correspondence by Poe as well as thematic pieces dealing with Transcendentalism and alternative romanticism， sci