Moses's The Literature of the South.
Holliday's A History of Southern Literature.
Manly's Southern Literature.
Painter's Poets of the South.
Woodberry's The Life of Edgar Allan Poe, Personal and Literary, with his chief Correspondence with Men of Letters, 2 vols., 1909. (The best life.)
Woodberry and Stedman's The Works of Edgar Allan Poe with a Memoir,
Critical Introductions, and Notes, 10 vols.
Harrison's The Virginia Edition of the Works of Edgar Allan Poe, 17 vols.
(Contains excellent critical essays.)
Harrison's Life and Letters of Edgar Allan Poe, 2 vols.
Stedman's Poets of America. (Poe.)
Fruit's The Mind and Art of Poe's Poetry.