The Poems of Edgar Allen Poe

by Edgar Allan Poe, Edmund Clarence Stedman (Editor), George Edmund Woodbury (Editor)

A collection of the poems by the famous American writer.

Al Araaf --
Alone --
Annabel Lee --
Bells --
Bridal ballad --
City in the sea --
Coliseum --
Conqueror worm --
Dactylic couplet --
Deep in earth --
Dream --
Dream-land --
Dreams --
Dream within a dream --
Eldorado --
Elizabeth --
Enigma --
Eulalie --
Evening star --
To F --
To F-SS. O-D --
Fairy-land --
For Annie --
"Happiest day, the happiest hour" --
Haunted palace --
To Helen (1831) --
To Helen (1848) --
Hymn --
Hymn to Aristogeiton and Harmodius --
Imitation --
"In the greenest of our valleys" --
Introduction --"In youth I have known one" --
To Isadore --
Israfel --
Lake: To- --
Lenore --
Lines on ale --
To Louise Oliver Hunter --
To M.L.S. --
To my mother --
Mysterious star --
To Octavia --
To one in paradise --
Apaean --
Poetry --
Raven --
Romance --
"Sancta Maria" --
Scenes from "Politian" --
Serenade --
Silence --
Sleeper --
To science --
Song --
Spirits of the dead --
Stanzas --
To ... ("The bowers whereat ... ") --
To ... ("Not long ago..") --
To ... (Should my early life..") --
To ... (Sleep on..") --
To ... ("I heed not") --
To the river --
Valentine --
Valley of unrest --
To Zante --
Poetic principle --
Rationale of verse.

Genres: Poetry

239 pages, Library Binding

Published January 1, 1895

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.

For more information, please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_al...

Reviews

[Derek · Rating 2 out of 5]

I would recommend this to someone who enjoys poems but that is just about it. I have never truly been one to enjoy poems. The works of Edgar Allan Poe are interesting to read but also very confusing. I cannot read poems like this without already knowing the meaning behind the poem in the first place. To me, reading poems is like Mr. Poe's poem "The Raven", where not knowing what is happening is driving me crazy. I understand that Edgar Allan Poe's works are supposed to have deep meanings in them, but honestly, I just can't see it.