Without reading too far into the essay of Edgar Allen Poe's, 'The Philosophy of the Composition, Poe exposes his arrogance as a skilled writer. The following passage rings of arrogance: "I have often thought how interesting a magazine paper might be written by any author who would — that is to say, who could — detail, step by step, the processes by which any one of his compositions attained its ultimate point of completion. Why such [column 2:] a paper has never been given to the world, I am much at a loss to say — but, perhaps, the autorial vanity has had more to do with the omission than any one other cause." Poe appears to view himself as a great writer as depicted below: "For my own part, I have neither sympathy with the repugnance alluded to, nor, at any time, the least difficulty in recalling to mind the progressive steps of any of my compositions; and, since the interest of an analysis, or reconstruction, such as I have considered a desideratum, is quite ...
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