The works of Edgar Allan Poe, including the choicest of his critical essays

by Edgar Allan Poe

EDGAR ALLAN POE : HIS LIFE AND WORKS, FROM THE FRENCH OP CHARLES BAUDELAIRE ....

MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.
THE BAVEN - . . . .25
LENORE . - . . . - 28 HYMN ...... 29
A VALENTINE - - - - 29
THE COLISEUM - - - . ; 30
To HELEN - - - . . * 31
To . . . -. 33
ULALUME - - . 34
THE BELLS - - 36
AN ENIGMA - 39
ANNABEL LEE - - - 40
To MY MOTHER - . 41
THE HAUNTED PALACE - - ."* 41
THE CONQUEROR WORM . - . . .43
To P s. S. D. - - - - . 44
To ONE IN PARADISE .... 44
THE VALLEY OF UNREST - - - . 45
THE CITY IN THE SEA - - 46
THE SLEEPER - , -, - 47
SILENCE . . . . 49
A DREAM WITHIN A DREAM ....
DREAM-LAND ...
To ZANTE - .
EULALIE - -
ELDORADO -
ISRAFEL
FOR ANNIE - -
To - . .
BRIDAL BALLAD .....
To F ......
SCENES FROM "POLITIAN" ....

POEMS WPJTTEN IN YOUTH.
SONNET To SCIENCE -
AL AARAAF -
To THE RIVER ...
TAMERLANE ....
To - . .
A DREAM - - -
ROMANCE - . .
FAIRY-LAND - ....
THE LAKE To
SONG - - - . v
To M. L. S. -

TALES OF MYSTERY AND IMAGINATION.
THE GOLD BUG . - - 105
THE FACTS IN THE CASE or M. VALDEMAR - - 138
MS. FOUND IN A BOTTLE ; . . 147
A DESCENT INTO THE MAELSTROM ... 157
THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE - - - 172
THE MYSTERY OF MARIE ROGET - - - - 204
THE PURLOINED LETTER . ^848
THE BLACK CAT - - - -266
THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH - - - 275
THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO - 280
THE OVAL PORTRAIT - .... 287
THE ASSIGNATION . 290
* THE TELL-TALE HEART - . . . 300
-/WILLIAM WILSON - - .-, . . 305
BERENICE . . . . 324
ELEONORA - - - . " - 331
LIGEIA . . . - 337
SHADOW. A PARABLE - . . - 351
SILENCE. A FABLE - ... 354
A TALE OF THE RAGGED MOUNTAINS - - 357
KING PEST - - - - 367
THE MAN OF THE CROWD - 378
." THOU ART THE MAN "- .... 36

HUMOROUS TALES AND SKETCHES.
THE SPECTACLES . 403
THE Due DE L OMELETTE - - 425
LIONIZING - 429
NEVER BET THE DEVIL YOUR HEAD . 434
SOME WORDS WITH A MUMMY - - 443
WHY THE LITTLE FRENCHMAN WEARS HIS HAND IN A SLING 458
THE LITERARY LIFE OF THINGUM BOB, ESQ. - - 463
How TO WRITE A "BLACKWOOD" ARTICLE * 480
X-ING A PARAGRAB - - 489
DIDDLING CONSIDERED AS ONE OF THE EXACT SCIENCES - 495
THE ANGEL OF THE ODD - - 505
MELLONTA TAUTA 514
THE MAN THAT WAS USED UP - 526
THE BUSINESS MAN - - : - - - - 536

CRITICAL ESSAYS.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BARRETT (MRS. BROWNING) - 547
R. H. HORNE - - 569
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY .... 588
CHARLES LEVER - . . -591
CHARLES DICKENS . . . 600
LONGFELLOW S BALLADS - k V . . . 617
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE . . - . 628
THE POETIC PRINCIPLE - . ... 641
THE PHILOSOPHY or COMPOSITION ... 660
PHILOSOPHY or FURNITURE . . . . 671

676 pages, Library Binding

Published January 1, 1872

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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