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The Poetic Principle (1850)
by Edgar Allan Poe
This version of "The Poetic Principle is from The Works of the Late Edgar Allan
Poe, vol. III, 1850, pp. 1-20. It was published in September 1850. An alternate
version was published on August 31, 1850, in the Home Journal.
THE POETIC PRINCIPLE.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
IN speaking of the Poetic Principle, I have no design to be either
thorough or profound. While discussing, very much at random, the
essentiality of what we call Poetry, my principal purpose will be to cite
for consideration, some few of those minor English or American poems which
best suit my own taste, or which, upon my own fancy, have left the most
definite impression. By "minor poems" I mean, of course, poems of little
length. And here, in the beginning, permit me to say a few words in regard
to a somewhat peculiar principle, which, whether rightfully or wrongfully,
has always had its influence in my own critical estimate of the poem. I
hold that a long poem does not exist. I maintain that the phrase, "a long
poem," is simply a flat contradiction in terms.
I need scarcely observe that a poem deserves its title only
inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul. The value of the poem is
in the ratio of this elevating excitement. But all excitements are,
through a psychal necessity, transient. That degree of excitement which
would entitle a poem to be so called at all, cannot be sustained throughout
a composition of any great length. After the lapse of half an hour, at
the very utmost, it flags — fails — a revulsion ensues — and then the
poem is, in effect, and in fact, no longer such.
There are, no doubt, many who have found difficulty in reconciling
the critical dictum that the "Paradise Lost" is to be devoutly admired
throughout, with the absolute impossibility of maintaining for it, during
perusal, the amount of enthusiasm which [page 2:] that critical dictum
would
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