For the purpose of this inquiry I have relied mainly upon the Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Harrison, J. A., New York, no date (1902) ; but I have also taken account of all uncollected matter known to me, including articles in the Southern Literary Messenger, the Pittsburg Literary Examiner, Burton's Gentleman's Magazine, Graham's Magazine, the Evening Mirror, the Broadway Journal, the Democratic Review, and the Western Quarterly Review.

Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Harrison, J. A., New York, no date (1902), I, pp. 344-346.

Where his reading of a book under review had been partial or cursory, it was his custom, apparently, to make an acknowledgment to that effect, as occurs in his review of Stephens's Incidents of Travel in Central America (Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Harrison, J. A., New York, no date (1902), X, p. 181). Occasionally, too, he makes an even more categorical statement as to his reading, as when he asserts (ibid., VIII, p. 163) that he had read Niebuhr's Roman History, and (Southern Literary Messenger, I, p. 714) that he had not read Beckford's Recollections of an Excursion to the Monasteries of Alcobaca and Batalha.

Besides, there are a number of items attributed to Poe that have not been completely authenticated as his. It has seemed to me proper to take account, - in the body of my paper, at least, - of only such items as are undoubtedly Poe's; though I have referred in footnotes to various more or less dubious articles. To the list of incompletely authenticated articles, should be added a number of articles recently ascribed to Poe by Miss Margaret Alterton in her treatise on the Origins of Poe's Critical Theory (University of Iowa Studies, Iowa City, 1925).

See for instance, the Southern Literary Messenger for December, 1835 (II, pp. 59f.), the Evening Mirror for January 10 and February 12, 1848, and the Broadway Journal for April 5 and 12, 1845.

Of his tales, "The Mystery of Marie Rogêt," "The Devil in the Belfry," "How to Write a Blackwood Article," and "The Pit and the Pendulum" are among those that were suggested in whole or in part by newspaper or magazine articles, and among the poems both "El Dorado" and his play Politian found their inception in occurrences chronicled in the newspapers.

Poe it may be noted, is often inexact in his quotations, a fact already pointed out by Professor Woodberry (Poe's Works, ed. Stedman and Woodberry, IV, pp. 291f.). For instance, of his forty-five quotations from the Bible, eighteen are inexact. Evidently he very often quoted from memory.

Often, too, he uses the same quotation several times, as in his repetition of the phrase "counterfeit presentment," which appears three times in his writings, and of a sentence from Bacon's essay "Of Beauty," which is quoted seven times. In the statistics that I give in this paper, each quotation is counted as often as it occurs, even though it is several times repeated.

Woodberry, Life of Poe, I, p. 64.

His enthusiasm for Tennyson knew no bounds. In one of his papers (Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Harrison, J. A., New York, no date (1902), XIV, p. 289) he declares that be was "the noblest poet that ever lived."

Weber, W. L., Selections from the Southern Poets, p. 195.

Other possible Shelleyan echoes I have pointed out in my edition of Poe's Poems, pp. 175, 181, 187, 197f., 208, 210, 222, 241, 245, 289.

See Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Harrison, J. A., New York, no date (1902), VII, p. xxxix.

Woodberry, Life of Poe, II, p. 146.

See also the lines "To Sarah", a poem attributed to Poe by Mr. J. H. Whitty (The Complete Poems of Poe, p. 142), which was evidently influenced by "Expostulation and Reply."

"He is the sole British poet who has never erred in his themes," he writes in one of his essays (Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Harrison, J. A., New York, no date (1902), XI, p. 76), and he adds, "Beauty is always his aim."

Mrs. Browning wrote to R. H. Horne at the time that he had "so obviously and thoroughly read" her poems "as to be a wonder among critics" (Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Harrison, J. A., New York, no date (1902), XVII, p. 387).

Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Harrison, J. A., New York, no date (1902), XVII, p. 267.

Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Harrison, J. A., New York, no date (1902), XII, p. 241.

General James Grant Wilson, in his Bryant and His Friends, p. 342, tells of Poe's having quoted on one occasion, in conversation with his father, Swift's lines,

"In Pope I cannot read a line
But with a sigh I wish it mine,
When he can in one couplet fix
More sense than I can do in six."

Miss Margaret Alterton in her recent study of the Origins of Poe's Critical Theory, (University of Iowa Studies, Iowa City, 1925), pp. 91-92, suggests that he probably knew also the "Art of Sinking in Poetry."

Although in his review of Lamb's Specimens of English Dramatic Poets (Broadway Journal, II, p. 289) he professes to have had a "long-time enthusiasm" for the elder English poets.

He refers to him once in an editorial note on Whitman's essay on "Art-Singing and Heart-Singing" in the Broadway Journal of November 29, 1845.

Which he erroneously refers to as "Old Man" (Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Harrison, J. A., New York, no date (1902), XII, 200; XV, p. 38).

A variant reading (Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Harrison, J. A., New York, no date (1902), IV, p. 310) has it "fizzitistical."

He makes no reference to Emerson, so far as I am aware, after 1846, the year of the publication of Emerson's first volume of poems. He must have known, to be sure, some of his lyrics published in the Dial, but it may very well be that, in his animadversions on Emerson, he was thinking primarily of his prose writings.

Woodberry, Life of Poe, I, p. 130; Poe's Works, ed. Stedman and Woodberry, IV, p. 296.

See Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Harrison, J. A., New York, no date (1902), X, pp. 214, 217.

Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Harrison, J. A., New York, no date (1902), XVII, p. 44.

In his tale "The Journal of Julius Rodman," moreover, he copies at length from Astoria (see Poe's Works, ed. Stedman and Woodberry, V, pp. 359-361).

A parallelism between "The Pit and the Pendulum" and a passage in Edgar Huntly makes it probable that he had read that novel.

[Jen's Note: See D. L. Clark, "The Sources of Poe's The Pit and the Pendulum," Modern Language Notes, vol. XLIV, no 6 (June 1929), pp. 349-356.

You can also compare "The Pit and the Pendulum" and Edgar Huntly side-by-side.]

Cf. Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Harrison, J. A., New York, no date (1902), X, p. 43.

See a reference in his review of Mathews's Memoirs (Burton's Gentleman's Magazine, VI, p. 57).

Prescott, F. C. (Poe's Critical Essays, p. xxxv), justly observes that Poe may have owed something to Macaulay's example in his review of Montgomery's poems.

See Austin, Henry, in Literature for August 4, 1899.

See the New York Nation, October 8, 1908, p. 335.

North had led him to hope that he might receive a favorable notice in Blackwood's (see Woodberry, Life of Poe, p. 220).

This sentence he quotes in seven different places (Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Harrison, J. A., New York, no date (1902), II, 250 ; III, p. 336; XI, p. 176; XII, p. 33; XIV, p. 153; XVI, pp. 85, 149).

Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Harrison, J. A., New York, no date (1902), XVI, p. 122.

Alterton, Margaret, Origins of Poe's Critical Theory (University of Iowa Studies, Iowa City, 1925), pp. 139f.

See Harrison's comment, Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Harrison, J. A., New York, no date (1902), I, p. 147.

See Cobb, Palmer, The Influence of E. T. A. Hoffman on the Tales of Edgar Allan Poe, Chapel Hill, 1908.

Giving both the original and his translation (Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Harrison, J. A., New York, no date (1902), XVI, p. 299).

Ingram, Life of Poe, pp. 40-41.

See the Virginia Literary Museum, September 30, 1829.

See Ingram's Life of Poe, pp. 18-19.

I do not know where this review appeared, but a brief paragraph from it is published among the advertisements printed at the end of the book.

Mrs. Browning (see Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Harrison, J. A., New York, no date (1902), XVII, p. 386) notes his slip (ibid., XII, p. 4) in referring to the Oedipus Coloneus as the work of Aeschylus.

The same passage in each instance, however, - a half a dozen words from the Poetics.

A Bible once belonging to Poe, but published in 1846, is preserved in the Poe cottage at Fordham (see Mabbott, Poe's Politian, p. 72).

Woodberry, Life of Poe, I, p. 20. A bill for these items is preserved in the "Ellis-Allan Papers."

Mabbott, Poe's Politian, l.c., p. 65.

See Poe's Works, ed. Stedman and Woodberry, IV, pp. 289f.

Mr. Mabbott (Poe's Politian, p. 65) holds that he drew on Lamb's Specimens of the English Dramatic Poets "for many quotations from the Elizabethans."