...at the innumerable glimpses of idea that arrived not at the maturity of full view — at the fully matured fancies discarded in despair as unmanageable...constitute the properties of the literary histrio. I am aware, on the other hand, that the case is by no means common, in which an author is at all in...

...public take a peep behind the scenes, at the elaborate and vacillating crudities of thought [...], at the cautious selections and rejections - at the...a word, at the wheels and pinions - the tackle for scene shifting - the stepladders and demon traps - the cock's feathers, the red paint, and the black...

...at the wheels and pinions—the tackle for scene-shifting—the step-ladders and demon-traps—the cock's feathers, the red paint and the black patches,...constitute the properties of the literary histrio. 12 Not so Poe himself. In "The Philosophy of Composition," "The Poetic Principle," "The Rationale of...

...the narrow sense of "stage properties," rather than the wider meaning of "general characteristics": "the wheels and pinions - the tackle for scene-shifting...cock's feathers, the red paint and the black patches" (E&R, 14). Poe's stylish metaphor runs away with itself here and obscures with visual color the preceding...

...moment— at the innumerable glimpses of idea that arrived not at the maturity of full view— at the fully matured fancies discarded in despair as unmanageable...constitute the properties of the literary histrio. I am aware, on the other hand, that the case is by no means common, in which an author is at all in...

...— at the innumerable glimpses of idea that arrived not at the maturity of full view— at the fully matured fancies discarded in despair as unmanageable...constitute the properties of the literary histrio. I am aware, on the other hand, that the case is by no means common, in which an author is at all in...

...environment. His gesture of sincerity is to expose others' fraudulent version of it. He lets the public stare "at the wheels and pinions - the tackle for scene-shifting...constitute the properties of the literary histrio" (14). Removing authenticity from the body of the poetess to the masculine realm of rational inquiry,...

...intuition — and would positively shudder at letting the public take a peep behind the scenes ... at the wheels and pinions — the tackle for scene-shifting...constitute the properties of the literary histrio. ("The Philosophy of Composition," 14: 194—5) This is a striking comparison between the minds of writers,...