The Selected Poetry and Prose of Edgar Allan Poe

by Edgar Allan Poe, T.O. Mabbott (editor)

Introduction by T. O. Mabbott
Tamerlane
To
POEMS
("I Saw on thy Bridal Day")
A Dream Within a Dream
A Dream
"The Happiest Day, the Happiest Hour"
The Lake: To
Alone
Sonnet—To Science
Songs from A1 Aaraaf
("The Bowers
To
To the River
Romance
To — ("I heed
Fairyland
To Helen
Lenore
Israfei
The City in the Sea
The Sleeper
The Valley of Unrest (first version)
The Valley of Unrest (final version)
The Coliseum
To One in Paradise (in The Assignation, p. 80)
Hymn
Sonnet to Zante
Bridal Ballad
The Haunted Palace (in The Fall of the House of Usher, p. 122)
Sonnet—Silence
The Conqueror Worm (in Ligeia, p. 107)
Dreamland
The Raven
Eulalie—A Song
To M.L.S—-
Ulalume
To Helen
For Annie
Eldorado
To My
Annabel Lee
The Bells
TALES
Metzengerstein
The Duc L'Omelette
MS. Fmrnd in a Bottle
The Assignation
Berenice
Morella
Shadow
Silence—A Fable
Ligeia
The Fail of the House of Usher
William Wilson
The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion
The Man of the Crowd
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
The Island of the Fay
A Descent into the Maelström
Three Sundays in a Week
Eleonora
The Oval Portrait
The Masque of the Red Death
The Pit and the Pendulum
The Tell-Tale Heart
The Gold-Bug
The Black Cat
The Elk
The Purloined Letter
The Imp of the Perverse
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
The Cask of Amontillado
Hop-Frog
Von Kempelen and His Discovery
The Light-House
Watkins Tottle
Hyperion
Exordium
Instinct vs Reason—A Black Cat
R. W. Emerson
Hazlitt, The Characters of Shakspeare
Milton, Prme Works
The Philosophy of Composition
Hawthorne, Tales, etc.
The Poetic Principle
Marginalia (extracts)
Notes
Index of Titles of Poems

Genres: Poetry, Classics, Horror, Short Stories, Fiction

428 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1951

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

[Tom]

A good collection of Poe's works.

Introduction by T. O. Mabbott - 3 Stars

Poems
Tamerlane - 3.5 Stars
To — — ("I saw Thee on thy Bridal Day") - 3.5 Stars
A Dream Within a Dream - 5 Stars
A Dream - 3 Stars
"The Happiest Day, The Happiest Hour" - 3 Stars
The Lake To — - 3 Stars

Alone - 4 Stars

Sonnet—To Science - 4.5 Stars
Songs from Al Aaraaf - 4.5 Stars This is the songs of the Goddess from the poem a small excerpt.

To— ("The Bowers . . .") -3 Stars Killis Campbell author of The Mind of Poe and Other Studies thought that these lines refer to Elmira Royster Shelton and that lines 11 and 12 may refer to the wealth of her successful suitor and husband, Alexander Barret Shelton, who later left her fifty thousand dollars. https://www.eapoe.org/works/mabbott/t...

To the River — - 3 Stars A beautiful poem that compares the elegance of a young woman to a crystal clear flowing river.

Romance - 4 Stars
To — ("I heed not . . .") [1929 version] - 3.5 Stars

Fairyland - 4 Stars
Helen - 3.5 Stars
Lenore - 4.5 Stars
Israfel - 3.5 Stars
The City in the Sea - 5 Stars
The Sleeper - 5 Stars
The Valley of Unrest (first version) - 5 Stars
The Valley of Unrest (final version) - 4.5 Stars
The Coliseum - 4 Stars
To One in Paradise (in The Assignation p. 80) - 4.5 Stars
Hymn - 4 Stars
Sonnet to Zante - 3.5 Stars
Bridal Ballad - 4 Stars
The Haunted Palace (in <>The Fall of House of Usher p. 122) - 5 Stars
Sonnet—Silence - 4.5 Stars
The Conqueror Worm (in Ligeia p. 107) - 4 Stars
Dreamland - 4.5 Stars
The Raven - 5 Stars
Eulalie—A Song - 4 Stars
To M.L.S.— (1847) - 5 Stars
Ulalume - 4 Stars
To Helen - 4 Stars
To Annie - 4 Stars
Eldorado - 5 Stars
To My Mother - 3.5 Stars
Annabel Lee - 5 Stars
The Bells - 5 Stars

Tales
Metzengerstein - 4 Stars
The Duc De L'Omelette - 3 Stars
MS Found in a Bottle - 5 Stars
The Assignation - 5 Stars
Berenice - 5 Stars
Morella - 4.5 Stars
Shadow - 5 Stars
Silence—A Fable - 4.5 Stars
Ligeia - 5 Stars
The Fall of the House of Usher - 5 Stars
William Wilson - 5 Stars
The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion - 4 Stars
The Man of the Crowd - 5 Stars
The Murders in the Rue Morgue - 5 Stars
The Island of the Fay - 4.5 Stars
A Descent into the Maelstrom - 5 Stars
Three Sundays in a Week - 3.5 Stars
Eleonora - 4 Stars
The Oval Portrait - 4 Stars
The Masque of the Red Death - 5 Stars
The Pit and the Pendulum - 5 Stars
The Tell-Tale Heart - 5 Stars
The Gold-Bug - 5 Stars
The Black Cat - 5 Stars
The Elk - 4 Stars
The Purloined Letter - 4 Stars
The Imp of the Perverse - 5 Stars
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar - 5 Stars
The Cask of Amontillado - 5 Stars
Hop-Frog - 5 Stars
Van Kempelen and His Discovery - 3 Stars
The Light-House - 4 Stars

Essays and Criticisms
Watkins Tottle by Charles Dickens (Boz) - 5 Stars
Hyperion by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 3.5 Stars
Exordium - 5 Stars
Instinct vs. Reason—A Black Cat - 5 Stars
R. W. Emerson - 2.5 Stars
Hazlitt, The Character of Shakespeare - 4 Stars
Milton, Prose Works - 3.5 Stars
The Philosophy of Composition - 5 Stars
Hawthorne, Tales, etc. - 3.5 Stars
The Poetic Principle - 5 Stars
Marginalia (extracts) - 5 Stars