 | Dorothea E. von Mücke - 2003 - 308 pages
...that exemplifies Poe's famous dictum from "The Philosophy of Composition" (1846) that "the death ... of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world,"18 be it in terms of a psychoanalytical dimension (Bronfen) or resonance with sentimental mass... | |
 | Donald Hall - 2004 - 236 pages
...are death and young women. Ah! — it comes to Poe in a flash, Archimedes in the bathtub. Eureka! — "the death, then, of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world. . . ." Now it is moderately clear that Poe needed to write about dead women. Far from being the last... | |
 | Eliza Richards - 2004 - 264 pages
...relies upon a woman's death to nourish the poem's "Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance." If "the death of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world," and "the lips best suited for such a topic are those of a bereaved lover," as Poe absurdly codifies in... | |
 | Elizabeth Klaver - 2004 - 268 pages
...Pearson for their insights during the writing of this paper. 1 . Poe famously asserted, "the death of a beautiful woman is unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world." ( The Philosophy of Composition, 1846). Contemporary cinema's fascination with the details of forensics,... | |
 | Anna Richards - 2004 - 248 pages
...and/or metaphorical terms. The novelist, in accordance with Poe's famous statement that 'the death of a beautiful woman is. unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world',8 portrays the decline of his heroine as a beautiful spectacle, and the 'mysterious' femininity... | |
 | William F. Hecker - 2005 - 256 pages
...I said, 'is this melancholy of topics most poetical?'. . . the answer here also is obvious—'When it most closely allies itself to beauty: the death...beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic of the world, and equally is it beyond doubt that the lips best suited for such topic are those of... | |
 | Domnica Radulescu, Maria Stadter Fox - 2005 - 242 pages
..."Récit et drame," 574. 20. One cannot help but think of Poe's famous (or notorious) assertion that "the death, then, of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world." Poe comes to this conclusion as he recounts his process of composing "The Raven" in his essay, "The... | |
 | Brett Zimmerman - 2005 - 440 pages
...in "The Philosophy of Composition" that death is the most melancholy topic of all and that the death "of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world" (14: 201). Threnos, for Poe, is actually something that can cause us a certain amount of pleasure -... | |
 | Harold Kaplan - 336 pages
...Composition" that "melancholy is the . . . most legitimate of all the poetical tones," and that "the death ... of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world." The fascination in his mind was with death; though "Beauty" could heighten the melancholy in the poems,... | |
 | Celia R. Daileader - 2005 - 284 pages
...both the victim and the monster. It was Edgar Allen Poe who infamously declared that "the death ... of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world."9 Perhaps it is stating the obvious that the woman must always be white - the whiter, the better... | |
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When it most closely allies itself to Beauty; the death, then, of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world... 
