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" Raven', as most generally known. It is my design to render it manifest that no one point in its composition is referable either to accident or intuition - that the work proceeded, step by step, to its completion with the precision and rigid consequence... "
The Critical Essays of a Country Parson - Page 226
by Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd - 1867 - 370 pages
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 25

American periodicals - 1850 - 638 pages
...attention. " No one point in the composition of that poem is referable either to accident or intuition ; the work proceeded step by step to its completion,...and rigid consequence of a mathematical problem." The first point to be settled was the length of the intended poem. This shpuld not be much over one...
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The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe: Poems and tales

Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Parker Willis - American literature - 1853 - 522 pages
...manifest, that. ;uft.pn£, .point in its composition is referible either to accidgnt or Jntuition — that the work proceeded, step by step, to its completion with the precision, #nd rigid . consequence of a 1 1 i:ii 1 1 > -ii im i, -il problem. Let us dismiss, as irrelevant to...
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The Irish quarterly review, Volume 5

1855 - 1428 pages
...render it manifest that no one point in its composition is referible either to accident or intention — that the work proceeded, step by step, to its completion,...and rigid consequence of a mathematical problem." A mind capable of such Herculean energy might triumph over the most enormous obstacles. In the following...
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The Ladies' Repository, Volume 20

1860 - 836 pages
...number of his lines to one-half the quantity. Edgar Рое вауз of the composition of hia " Raven," that " the work proceeded, step by step, to its completion...and rigid consequence of a mathematical problem." By even these few examples it will be seen what time, labor, and thought is required for the production...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 236

Early English newspapers - 1874 - 800 pages
...us, no sympathy with this repugnance, and he describes in curious detail how his best known poetical work " proceeded, step by step, to its completion...and rigid consequence of a mathematical problem." Having his own words for justification, I will not hesitate to lay before the public what cannot fail...
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Works, Volume 2

Edgar Allan Poe - 1876 - 522 pages
...generally known. It is my design to ren der it manifest that no one point in its composition is referible either to accident or intuition — that the work...precision and rigid consequence of a mathematical problem. Let us dismiss, as irrelevant to the poem, per se, the circumstance — or say the necessity — which,...
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Life and Poems

Edgar Allan Poe - 1879 - 336 pages
...in a similar manner. For my own part, I have neither sympathy with the repugnance alluded to, nor, at any time, the least difficulty in recalling to...precision and rigid consequence of a mathematical problem. Let us dismiss, as irrelevant to the poem, per se, the circumstance — or say the necessity — which,...
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Poems and Essays of Edgar Allan Poe: Including Memoir by John H. Ingram ...

Edgar Allan Poe - 1881 - 588 pages
...design to ren der it manifest that no one point in its composition is referible either to accidetit or intuition — that the work proceeded, step by...step, to its completion with the precision and rigid couseqnence of a mathematical problem. Let us dismiss, as irrelevant to the poem, per se, the circumstance...
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The poetical works of Edgar Allan Poe. Together with his essays on the ...

Edgar Allan Poe - American fiction - 1882 - 430 pages
...in a similar manner. For my own part, I have neither sympathy with the repugnance alluded to, nor, at any time, the least difficulty in recalling to...precision and rigid consequence of a mathematical problem. Let us dismiss, as irrelevant to the poem, per se, the circumstance — or say the necessity — which,...
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Poems of Edgar Allan Poe: With Memoir

Edgar Allan Poe - American poetry - 1882 - 226 pages
...generally known. It is my design to render it manifest that no one point in its composition is referrible either to accident or intuition, — that the work...precision and rigid consequence of a mathematical problem. Let us dismiss, as irrelevant to the poem, per se, the circumstance — or say the necessity — which,...
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