structural:reformatting, quality:corruption, stylistic:tone
Criticism

In Edgar Allan Poe's satires "How to Write a Blackwood Article" (1838) and " Never Bet the Devil Your Head " (1841), the author ridicules transcendentalism, elsewhere calling its followers "Frogpondians" after the pond on Boston Common. The latter story specifically mentions the movement and its flagship journal The Dial, though Poe denied that he had any specific targets. Poe attacked the transcendentalists' writings by calling them "metaphor-run mad", lapsing into "obscurity for obscurity's sake" or " mysticism for mysticism's sake". In Poe's essay " The Philosophy of Composition " (1846), he offers criticism denouncing "the excess of the suggested meaning... which turns into prose (and that of the very flattest kind) the so-called poetry of the so-called transcendentalists".