Many Poes

Daniel Hoffman. Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe. New York: Doubleday & Company, 1972. $7.95. 339 pp. "Many books, many Poes," Daniel Hoffman remarks in his preface to another one, Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe. The truth of the statement is self-evident, calling to mind Harry Levin's witticism (in a book itself partly concerned with Poe) that the Moby-Dick industry had almost replaced whaling as New England's preoccupation. Poe over the years has attracted a different kind of industry, the industry of critics (or poets) who respond to Poe the man as they see him behind Poe the writer, and who tend to identify or violently quarrel with a personality often enough of their own making. Is it permissible to forecast the replacement of the practice of psychoanalysis by the practice of studying Edgar Allan Poe

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