E. A. Poe’s Poetics: An Interdisciplinary Research

The article focuses on the research of the components of E. A. Poe’s poetics. The study generalizes and systematizes existing approaches to analyzing idiolect and idiostyle as the components of an individual authorʼs poetics. The term «idionarration» is introduced as the third component of Poe’s poetics to denote the author’s individual preferences in selecting narrative structures in both poetry and prose. The study suggests a combined application of linguostylistic and empirical methods to investigate the specificity of the author’s poetics as a system. Within the present research, a checklist for examining narrativity in poetry is introduced. To show its application a comparative analysis of Poe’s poems «Annabel Lee» and «Hymn» is offered.