Throughout the text, Poe’s works are cited parenthetically with the following abbreviations:
D = Doings of Gotham, edited by Jacob E. Spannuth and Thomas Ollive Mabbott (Folcroft, PA: Folcroft Library Editions, [1929] 1974).
ER = Essays and Reviews, edited by G. R. Thompson (New York: Library of America, 1984).
EU = Eureka, edited by Stuart Levine and Susan F. Levine (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004).
CL = The Collected Letters of Edgar Allan Poe, 2 vols., 3rd ed.; edited by John Ward Ostrom, Burton R. Pollin, and Jeffrey A. Savoye (New York: Gordian, 2008).
P = Complete Poems, edited by Thomas Ollive Mabbott (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, [1969] 2000).
T = Tales and Sketches, 2 vols., edited by Thomas Ollive Mabbott (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, [1978] 2000).