Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical Study, as the name of the title suggests, contain well researched articles on the life and literary achievements of Poe. The entire information is gathered under eight chapters viz., Edgar Allan Poe: An Overview; The Literary Works of Edgar Allan Poe; Poe and the Revenge of the Exquisite Corpse; Biographical Warfare: Silent Film and the Public Image of Poe; Poe, "Simplicity" and Blackwood's Magazine; Poe, the Daguerreotype and the Autobiographical Act; The Refrain in Poe's Poetry; Poe and the Theme of Forbidden Knowledge; etc.