Poe and the British Magazine Tradition

As Michael Allen suggests, these writers also drew on the cult of personality popularized in British magazines. See Poe and the British Magazine Tradition (New York Oxford University Press, 1969). 

Burton R. Pollin, Poe s Tale of Psyche Zenobia A Reading of Humor and Ingenious Construction in Papers on Poe, ed. Richard Veler (Springfield, Ohio Chantry Music Press, 1972), pp. 92-103 Allen, Poe and the British Magazine Tradition Weiner, Poe and the Blackwood s Tale of Sensation David Reynolds, Beneath the American Renaissance The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville (New York Knopf, 1988), pp. 238-239. 

Allen, Michael. Poe and the British Magazine Tradition. New York Oxford University Press, 1969. 

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