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The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe Volume 1:: Poems 1824 - 1829
The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe Volume 1: Poems 1824 - 1829 collects all of Poe's poems written between 1824 - 1829. Poems in this book: Poetry Preface to Tammerlane Tammerlane To-[Song] Imitation A Dream The Lake Visit of the Dead Evening Star Dreams Stanzas The Happiest Day To Margaret Alone To Isaac Lea To Science Al Aaraaf Romance 1. To- 2.To- 3. To- To the River The Lake Spirits of the Dead A Dream To M--- Fairyland An Acrostic Elizabeth
144 pages, Paperback
Published September 30, 2016
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Edgar Allan Poe
10k books28.9k followersThe 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...
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...
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April 18, 2017
I'm not a huge fan of poetry in general, so that could color my feelings about the poems in this book, but I just didn't care for most of them. That isn't to say they aren't interesting, they are, and if Poe's claims that he wrote most of them when he was around 14, then they are down right amazing. But, for me, most of them lack the maturity expressed in Poe's later work.
This edition, also includes background information on Poe and many of the poems contained in the book. What I really like about it is that in this and in upcoming volumes, Poe's work is to be presented in chronological order so that the reader is able to see how he grew as a writer. Will definitely be picking up the next volume when it is published!
This edition, also includes background information on Poe and many of the poems contained in the book. What I really like about it is that in this and in upcoming volumes, Poe's work is to be presented in chronological order so that the reader is able to see how he grew as a writer. Will definitely be picking up the next volume when it is published!
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