Complete Poems & Selected Essays

by Edgar Allan Poe, Richard Gray (Editor)

This book is part of the "Everyman" series which has been re-set with wide margins and easy-to-read type and includes a themed introduction, a chronology of the life and times of the author, a plot summary, annotated reading list and critical response. This selection presents all of Poe's poetry, and includes the less well known poems written before he was 20, among them "To Helen", which Poe said was written in boyhood for the woman whose death caused him "with half his heart to inhabit other worlds". The selected essays are illuminating in relation to Poe's life and times.

Contents
Essays and reviews. Letter to Mr. ̲̲--
The philosophy of composition --
The rationale of verse --
The poetic principle --
Georgia scenes --
Fancy and imagination --
Charles Dickens --
Longfellow --
Elizabeth Barrett Barrett --
Nathaniel Hawthorne --
From Marginalia.

Genres: Poetry

306 pages, Paperback

First published August 15, 1993

About the author

The name Poe brings to mind images of murderers and madmen, premature burials, and mysterious women who return from the dead. His works have been in print since 1827 and include such literary classics as The Tell-Tale Heart, The Raven, and The Fall of the House of Usher. This versatile writer’s oeuvre includes short stories, poetry, a novel, a textbook, a book of scientific theory, and hundreds of essays and book reviews. He is widely acknowledged as the inventor of the modern detective story and an innovator in the science fiction genre, but he made his living as America’s first great literary critic and theoretician. Poe’s reputation today rests primarily on his tales of terror as well as on his haunting lyric poetry.

Just as the bizarre characters in Poe’s stories have captured the public imagination so too has Poe himself. He is seen as a morbid, mysterious figure lurking in the shadows of moonlit cemeteries or crumbling castles. This is the Poe of legend. But much of what we know about Poe is wrong, the product of a biography written by one of his enemies in an attempt to defame the author’s name.

The real Poe was born to traveling actors in Boston on January 19, 1809. Edgar was the second of three children. His other brother William Henry Leonard Poe would also become a poet before his early death, and Poe’s sister Rosalie Poe would grow up to teach penmanship at a Richmond girls’ school. Within three years of Poe’s birth both of his parents had died, and he was taken in by the wealthy tobacco merchant John Allan and his wife Frances Valentine Allan in Richmond, Virginia while Poe’s siblings went to live with other families. Mr. Allan would rear Poe to be a businessman and a Virginia gentleman, but Poe had dreams of being a writer in emulation of his childhood hero the British poet Lord Byron. Early poetic verses found written in a young Poe’s handwriting on the backs of Allan’s ledger sheets reveal how little interest Poe had in the tobacco business.

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Reviews

[Pashk · Rating 3 out of 5]

Poezitë ishin të mrekullueshme, pjesa tjetër flet ca si shumë për filozofinë dhe s’më ngrofi.

[Burak Nejat Börekçi · Rating 4 out of 5]

Bazı şiirleri maalesef çok hoşuma gitmese de genel olarak hepsini beğendim. Özellikle zaten Raven ve Annabel Lee şiirlerini mutlaka okumanızı öneriyorum.

[Trina Marie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Quoth the Raven ‘nevermore’ 🖤