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This volume gathers all of Edgar Allan Poe's poems, from the youthful Tamerlane to his last works: 'The Raven', with its haunting refrain 'Nevermore';…
This volume gathers all of Edgar Allan Poe's poems, from the youthful Tamerlane to his last works: 'The Raven', with its haunting refrain 'Nevermore'; 'Annabel Lee', about a love so great that the angels envied it; 'The Bells', which rings with the sounds it describes; 'Ulalume', 'Lenore', 'To Helen' and 'Eldorado'. It also contains his essays on poetry: 'The Poetic Principle', and 'The Philosophy of Composition', in which he claims to explain, step by step, how he wrote 'The Raven'.
Context and significance
Poe (1809–1849) thought poetry should aim at beauty and a single intense effect, and his musical, melancholy verse deeply influenced Baudelaire and the French Symbolists. This edition was edited by John Henry Ingram, one of his early biographers. 'The Raven' also has its own page in the library, The Raven, and his tales are in Volume 2 of his Works.
About the author
Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) was born in Boston to travelling actors and orphaned before he was three. Raised by a Richmond merchant who later disowned him, he lived by his pen as a poet, critic and magazine editor, always short of money. His young wife Virginia died of tuberculosis in 1847, and two years later Poe was found delirious in Baltimore and died days later, in circumstances that are still a mystery.
He made the short story an art of total effect, wrote tales of terror such as The Fall of the House of Usher, invented the detective story with 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' and wrote 'The Raven', one of the most famous poems in English. French poets led by Baudelaire honoured him before America did.