SOURCE: “Poe's Most Poetic Subject,” in Women and Death: Linkages in Western Thought and Literature, Greenwood Press, 1984, pp. 44-57.
In the following excerpt from an essay originally published in 1982, Bassein suggests that Poe's concentration on dead women in his works has negatively influenced later treatments of women in American literature, as well as women's images of themselves.
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