Edgar Allan Poe: Poetry and Tales

1550 Pages·1984·6.31 MB·English

by  Edgar Allan Poe

EDGAR ALLAN POE
POETRY AND TALES
Patrick F. Quinn, editor

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eISBN 978–1–59853–387–3
Edgar Allan Poe’s Poetry and Tales
is kept in print by a gift from
FREDERICK W. BEINECKE,
a member of The Raven Society at the University of Virginia, and
CANDACE K. BEINECKE
to the Guardians of American Letters Fund, established by The Library of
America to ensure that every volume in the series will be permanently available.
The text of Eureka: A Prose Poem reprinted here was established from the
authoritative documents by Roland W. Nelson. This volume also prints texts from
Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe edited by Thomas Ollive Mabbott and
published by The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press and texts from The
Poems of Edgar Allan Poe edited by Floyd Stovall and published by The
University Press of Virginia, with the permission of the publishers.
Contents
Each section has its own table of contents.
Poetry
Tales and Sketches
The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym
The Journal of Julius Rodman
Eureka: A Prose Poem
Chronology
Note on the Texts
Notes
Index of Titles
Index of First Lines
POETRY
Contents
(Poem titles not given by Poe are indicated by quotation marks)
PREFACES
Preface (Tamerlane and Other Poems—1827)
Letter to Mr. —— —— (Poems—1831)
Preface (The Raven and Other Poems—1845)
POEMS
O, Tempora! O, Mores!
To Margaret
“To Octavia”
Tamerlane
Song
Dreams
Spirits of the Dead
Evening Star
Imitation
“Stanzas”
A Dream
“The Happiest Day”
The Lake—To ——
Sonnet—To Science
Al Aaraaf
“Mysterious Star!”
Romance
Introduction