...manifest that no one point in its composition is referable either to accident or to intuition - that the work proceeded, step by step, to its completion...precision and rigid consequence of a mathematical problem' (Poe 1967. 504). According to Poe, a good literary craftsman must tackle the problem of writing with...

...(his italics).7 Poe reveals here the procedure by which he composed his poem "The Raven," work which "proceeded, step by step, to its completion with the...and rigid consequence of a mathematical problem." In another of his own analogies, it was written with the care required to produce a spectacular theatrical...

...popular and the critical taste," and his elaborate account in "The Philosophy of Composition" of how "the work proceeded, step by step, to its completion...precision and rigid consequence of a mathematical problem" (15). On Poe's tales as elite appropriations of the "popular irrationalism" of contemporary sensational...

...manifest that no one point in its composition is referrible either to accident or intuition — that the work proceeded step by step, to its completion...precision and rigid consequence of a mathematical problem. Let us dismiss, as irrelevant to the poem perse, the circumstance— or say the necessity— which,...

...manifest that no one point in its composition is refem'ble either to accident or intuition — that the work proceeded, step by step, to its completion...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,...

...of control: "[N]o one point in its composition is referable either to accident or intuition. . . . [T]he work proceeded step by step, to its completion,...precision and rigid consequence of a mathematical problem. "Telling us that he has decided to construct a poem, he must define "a poem": It shall not be long;...

...no one point in [the poem's] composition" would be "referrible either to accident or intuition . . . the work proceeded, step by step, to its completion...precision and rigid consequence of a mathematical problem" (14—15). And later, speaking of the necessity of originality, Poe notes that it "is by no means a...

...manifest that no one point in its composition is referrible either to accident or intuition - that the work proceeded, step by step, to its completion...precision and rigid consequence of a mathematical problem' (14—15). There has been persistent conjecture that 'The Philosophy of Composition' was a deliberate...

...manifest that no one point in its composition is referrible either to accident or intuition— that the work proceeded, step by step, to its completion...precision and rigid consequence of a mathematical problem."7 On one hand, then, Poe seems quite comfortable characterizing the artistic process in terms...

...its composition is referrible either to accident or intuition," he says about writing "The Raven": "the work proceeded, step by step, to its completion...and rigid consequence of a mathematical problem." Yeah, right. And it's not just a matter of time lapsed, that the account is being written in the present...