Download or read book The Poetic Principle (Annotated) written by Edgar Allan Poe and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-01-19 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IN speaking of the Poetic Principle, I have no design to be either thorough or profound. While discussing, very much at random, the essentiality of what we call Poetry, my principal purpose will be to cite for consideration, some few of those minor English or American poems which best suit my own taste, or which, upon my own fancy, have left the most definite impression.