SOURCE: “Writing and the Problem of Death,” in Poe, Death, and the Life of Writing, Yale University Press, 1987, pp. 1-31.
In the following essay, Kennedy examines the responses to death of various nineteenth-century American writers—including Harriet Beecher Stowe, William Cullen Bryant, Washington Irving, and James Fenimore Cooper—eventually focusing on the role of death in Poe's works.
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