SOURCE: "The Function of Terror in the Work of Edgar Allan Poe," in American Quarterly, Vol. XVIII, No. 2, Summer, 1966, pp. 136-50.
In the following essay, Garrison seeks to reconcile Poe's preoccupation with horror with his quest for "Supernal Beauty."
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