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  EDGAR ALLAN POE Review of My Two Books By Prof. Tom Graves Editor, Blog Scarriet & Prof. Lesley University, Cambridge, MA, US 1.The Haunted Palace I have finished your book. It is an admirable study---mostly for its focused and sober affirmation of Poe's principles of "unity, limit, and intensity" within the mingling realms of the "ratiocinative, arabesque, gothic, satiric, burlesque" trailing along the liquid borders of "poetry, tale, essay," and novel amidst gloomy and glorious "rhythm, incident, and tone" by fine degrees. I did enjoy your take on Hans Pfall and the balloon hoax. Poe always slips in extra symbols in case we don't have enough! As an added bonus, you give a calm and thorough overview of Poe's critical reception in a calm manner--- mine is the over-excited approach; I sneer and yell at Poe's detractors (they were legion) whereas you take a more measured position which is fitting for scholarship. Winters and ...