Uniform with this Volume.
EDGAR ALLAN POE
A CRITICAL STUDY
BY
ARTHUR RANSOME
"This very interesting study."
Times.
"This book describes Poe's sad and extremely lonely life, with all its pride and morbidness, and it also gives a subtle and clear analysis of his brilliant gifts."
Standard.
"Mr. Arthur Ransome has given us a workmanlike and readable book."
Chronicle.
"The study is thorough and conscientious, and as entertaining as a whole as it is in parts provocative."
Saturday Review.
"Always interesting, often ingenious, sometimes brilliantly written."
Nation.
"Prefaced with a biographical account which is quite one of the best sketches of Poe's oddly vagabond life that we have in English."
Pall Mall Gazette.
"It is possible that the grace and charm of Mr. Ransome's style may deceive some as to the serious import of his work; but it seems clear to us that in his critical study of Poe, Mr. Ransome has made a potent but mysterious person much more truthfully visible than before; and, in the larger matters, has shown himself one of the present time's most vital and original writers on philosophic criticism, one in whom the right instincts are mated with an enthusiastic and careful precision of analysis."
Liverpool Courier.