"The Rationale of Verse", an essay by Edgar Allan Poe, outlines his theory of poetry. It was finished published in two installments in Oct. and Nov. issues of the the Southern Literary Messenger in 1848.An earlier form of this essay was originally published as "Notes Upon English Verse" in the March 1843 issues of James R. Lowell's short-lived magazine The Pioneer.The essay begins with the following:"The word 'Verse' is here used not in its stric...
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"The Rationale of Verse", an essay by Edgar Allan Poe, outlines his theory of poetry. It was finished published in two installments in Oct. and Nov. issues of the the Southern Literary Messenger in 1848.
An earlier form of this essay was originally published as "Notes Upon English Verse" in the March 1843 issues of James R. Lowell's short-lived magazine The Pioneer.
The essay begins with the following:
"The word 'Verse' is here used not in its strict or primitive sense, but as the term most convenient for expressing generally and without pedantry all that is involved in the consideration of rhythm, rhyme, metre, and versification."
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