Edgar Allan Poe: Poetry and Tales (LOA #19) by
The Library of America presents "the first truly dependable collection of Poe's poetry and tales"-featuring well-known works like 'The Raven' and 'The Fall of the House of Usher', plus a selection of rarely published writings (New York Review of Books). Edgar Allan Poe's poetry is famous both for the musicality of "To Helen" and "The City in the Sea" and for the hypnotic, incantatory rhythms of "The Raven" and "Ulalume." "The Fall of the House of Usher" and "The Cask of Amontillado" show his mastery of Gothic horror; "The Pit and the Pendulum" is a classic of terror and suspense. Poe invented the modern detective story in "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," and developed the form of science fiction that was to influence, among others, Jules Verne and Thomas Pynchon. Poe was also adept at the humorous sketch of playful jeu d'esprit, such as "X-ing a Paragraph" or "Never Bet the Devil Your Head." All his stories reveal his high regard for technical proficiency and for what he called "rationation." Poe's fugitive early poems, stories rarely collected (such as "Bon-Bon," "King Pest," "Mystification," and "The Duc De L'Omelette"), his only attempt at drama, "Politian"-these and much more are included in this comprehensive collection, presented chronologically to show Poe's development toward Eureka- A Prose Poem, his culminating vision of an indeterminate universe, printed here for the first time as Poe revised it and intended it should stand. A special feature of this volume is the care taken to select an authoritative text of each work. The printing and publishing history of every item has been investigated in order to choose a version that incorporates all of Poe's own revisions without reproducing the errors or changes introduced by later editors. Here, then, is one of America's and the world's most disturbing, powerful, and inventive writers. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
The selections of poetry and short prose works are arranged in the volume chronologically. They are listed below in alphabetical order.
Poetry
Selections include:
An Acrostic
Al Aaraaf
“Alone”
Annabel Lee
The Bells
Bridal Ballad
The City in the Sea
The Coliseum
The Conqueror Worm
“Deep in Earth”
A Dream
A Dream within a Dream
Dream-Land
Eldorado
Elizabeth
Enigma
An Enigma
Eulalie—A Song
Evening Star
Fairy-Land
For Annie
“The Happiest Day”
The Haunted Palace
Hymn
Imitation
Israfel
The Lake—To —
Lenore
“Lines on Joe Locke”
O, Tempora! O, Mores!
The Raven
Romance
Scenes from “Politian”
Serenade
The Sleeper
Song
Sonnet—Silence
Sonnet—To Science
Sonnet—To Zante
Spirits of the Dead
“Stanzas”
Tamerlane
To — (“The bowers whereat”)
To — (“I heed not”)
To F— (“Beloved! amid the earnest woes”)
To F—s S. O—d
To Helen (“Helen, thy beauty is to me”)
To Helen (“I saw thee once”)
“To Isaac Lea”
To Margaret
To M. L. S—
To Miss Louise Olivia Hunter
To My Mother
“To Octavia”
To One in Paradise
To the River —
Ulalume—A Ballad
A Valentine to — — —
The Valley of Unrest
Tales and Sketches
The Angel of the Odd
The Assignation
The Balloon-Hoax
Berenice
The Black Cat
Bon-Bon
The Business Man
Byron and Miss Chaworth
The Cask of Amontillado
The Colloquy of Monos and Una
The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion
A Descent into the Maelström
The Devil in the Belfry
Diddling Considered as One of the Exact Sciences
The Domain of Arnheim
The Duc De L’Omelette
Eleonora
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
The Fall of the House of Usher
The Folio Club
Four Beasts in One—The Homo-Cameleopard
The Gold-Bug
Hop-Frog
How to Write a Blackwood Article
The Imp of the Perverse
Instinct vs Reason—A Black Cat
The Island of the Fay
King Pest
Landor’s Cottage
Ligeia
The Light-House
Lionizing
The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq.
Loss of Breath
The Man of the Crowd
The Man That Was Used Up
The Masque of the Red Death
Mellonta Tauta
Mesmeric Revelation
Metzengerstein
Morella
Morning on the Wissahiccon
MS. Found in a Bottle
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
The Mystery of Marie Rogêt
Mystification
Never Bet the Devil Your Head
The Oblong Box
The Oval Portrait
The Philosophy of Furniture
The Pit and the Pendulum
The Power of Words
The Premature Burial
The Purloined Letter
Shadow—A Parable
Silence—A Fable
Some Account of Stonehenge, the Giant’s Dance
Some Words with a Mummy
The Spectacles
The Sphinx
The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether
A Tale of Jerusalem
A Tale of the Ragged Mountains
The Tell-Tale Heart
“Thou Art the Man”
The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade
Three Sundays in a Week
Von Kempelen and His Discovery
Why the Little Frenchman Wears His Hand in a Sling
William Wilson
‘X-ing a Paragrab’
The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall (1835)
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (1838)
The Journal of Julius Rodman (1840)
Eureka: A Prose Poem (1848)
Edgar Allan Poe: Essays and Reviews (LOA #20) by
This is the most complete one-volume edition of Poe's essays and reviews ever published. Here are all his major writings on the theory of poetry, the art of fiction, and the duties of a critic: "The Rationale of Verse," "The Philosophy of Composition," "The Poetic Principle," and "About Critics and Criticism." Articulating Poe's passion for technical proficiency and his theory of poetic method, these essays show why he so strongly influenced the French symbolists toward the end of nineteenth century and, through them, the poetry of T. S. Eliot and Hart Crane. Included in this collection are Poe's reviews and candid opinions of the leading literary figures of his day: Charles Dickens, Washington Irving, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Percy Shelley, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Margaret Fuller, among others. Here also are reviews of long-forgotten writers, reviews that are interesting not so much for their subjects as for Poe's unflinching and witty candor. Many of his then controversial judgments have been vindicated by time. Poe particularly relished his prolonged critical war with Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Professor of Modern Languages at Harvard and America's most respected poet of the nineteenth century, whom he accused of conventionality and plagiarism. The skirmishes in this campaign are represented here in full. Poe wrote many articles describing the literary world in which he circulated: "The Literati of New York," the "Editorial Miscellanies" from the Broadway Journal, "Some Secrets of the Magazine Prison-House," and his long-running series "Marginalia." Also included are a wealth of articles on a wide variety of topics: South Sea exploration, cryptography, drama, geography, music, transcendentalism, phrenology, ancient languages, and modern cities. As a reviewer Poe was direct, discriminating, and feared; as an essayist he was alert to any possibility that in literature there might be found a sense of unity missing from life. This volume restores an essential and often neglected part of our literary heritage. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
Theory of Poetry
Reviews of British and Continental Authors
Reviews of American Authors and American Literature
Magazines and Criticism
The Literary and Social Scene
Articles and Marginalia