Collected Poems

by Edgar Allan Poe

Preface to the Poems
To —
To —
To —
A1 Aaraaf
Alone
Annabel Lee
For Annie
The Bells
Bridal Ballad
The City in the Sea
The Coliseum
The Conqueror Worm
A Dream
A Dream Within a Dream
Dream-Land
Dreams
Eldorado
An Enigma
Eulalie
Evening Star
To F—
To S. 0—1)
Fairy-Land
"The Happiest Day"
The Haunted Palace
To Helen
TO Helen
Hymn
Hymn eo Aristogeiton and Harmodius
Imitation
TO Isadore
Israfel
The Lake—to —
Lenore
To M. L. S—
To My Mother
To One in Paradise
A Pa•an
Scenes From "Politian"
The Raven
To The River —
Romance
Silence
The Sleeper
Song
Sonnet—To Science
Spirits of the Dead
Tamerlane
Ulalume
A Valentine
The Valley of Unrest
"In Youth I have Known One"
To Zane
The Rationale of Verse
The Poetic Principle

Genres: Poetry, Horror, Classics

211 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1990

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

[Taylor Franson-Thiel · Rating 3 out of 5]

Booooooo Edgar Allan Poe

[Andrew · Rating 3 out of 5]

There are some real classics here, not least of which are "Annabel Lee," "The Raven" and "The Bells." The collection I read - free on Kindle - also included a couple of essays on poetry by Poe.

However, the collection as a whole struck me as repetitive in image, meter, and subject matter; while the essays themselves revealed the extent of what seems to be a rather considerable ego in their pedantic lecturing and self-glorifying examples from his own work. They did, however, reveal something of the thought and process behind the writing of "The Raven," which was fascinating.

I love Poe for his ability to see the beautiful in the ugly, the dark, and the melancholy. But I prefer his short stories to the majority of his poetry.

[semina · Rating 4 out of 5]

69 poems with the average rating of 3,83
isbn of the book i read 9788681464526

[Emmaline Parker · Rating 3 out of 5]

I read this collection so I could annotate it as a Christmas gift for a friend. There are many gems among these poems, and it makes for a good coffee table book; however, it’s not my personal preference. Poetry isn’t my thing, but I can appreciate Poe’s skillful use of words and imagery.

[Scott DuJardin · Rating 3 out of 5]

My first focused reading of Poe's poetry. I found that there were more than just 'The Raven' that I really enjoyed ('The Conqueror Worm' !!). This book includes all of his poems - including early works, most of which I was not that taken with - and also two essays on poetry written by Poe.

[Jeffrey Bumiller · Rating 4 out of 5]

Always good Halloween time reading! This is my favorite collection of Poe's poems and I was very surprised that the ISBN on the book registers with GoodReads but doesn't pull up the same book that I have. Turns out that this book was published by Lowe & Behold (ridiculous name) which is an imprint of Borders. Any one remember Border? Remember big box bookstores?

Anyway, this is a great collection, really well laid out and the two essays tacked on at the end, "The rationale of verse" and "The Poetic Principle" are both awesome (and completely over my head!)

Uh-oh department: I think I have a raging battle going on in my head as to which Poe collection is actually my favorite. I am remembering an over-sized illustrated collection that was formative for me in my youth! I will have to track it down and find out about it!

[Willow Redd · Rating 4 out of 5]

Here we have a collection of poems from one of the masters, Edgar Allan Poe. There were some poems of his I had never read before, but am now a huge fan of, such as "Al Aaraaf."

Along with the poems, there are two essays written by Mr. Poe, one on the Rationale of Verse, and another on the Poetic Principle. "Verse" was a bit tough to get through, but worth the read; while "The Poetic Principle" was a very good read and something I will be coming back to in the future.

All in all, a sound collection.

[Steve · Rating 5 out of 5]

I don't usually enjoy reading poetry much, but Poe just has a knack for holding my interest. Lots of good stuff here, but I might have a difficult time giving fewer than five stars to any book that includes "The Raven." Truly an outstanding classic.

[Rachel · Rating 4 out of 5]

Some poetry I do like!