The Complete Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe - Edgar Allan Poe [0]
Title Page
Copyright Page
Introduction
Tamerlane
Song
Dreams
Spirits of the Dead
Evening Star
A Dream. Within a Dream
Stanzas
A Dream
“The Happiest Day, the Happiest Hour”
The Lake: To—
Sonnet—To Science
Al Aaraaf
Romance
To —
To the River—
To—
Fairy-Land
Alone
To Helen
Israfel
The City in the Sea
The Sleeper
Lenore
The Valley of Unrest
The Coliseum
To One in Paradise
Hymn
To F—
To F—s S. O—∂
Bridal Ballad
Sonnet—To Zante
The Haunted Palace
Sonnet—Silence
The Conqueror Worm
Dream-Land
The Raven
Eulalie—A Song
A Valentine
To M. L. S—
Ulalume—A Ballad
An Enigma
To———
To Helen
Eldorado
For Annie
To My Mother
Annabel Lee
The Bells
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Edgar Allan Poe (1809-49) received a good education, first in England, then in a private school in Richmond, and later spent a year at the University of Virginia before he ran away to enlist in the army. Between 1827 and 1831, he published three volumes of poetry: Tamerlane (1827), Al Aaraaf (1829), and Poems (1831). From 1831 to 1835, he lived in Baltimore, where he began a lifelong struggle with poverty, disappointments in love, and addiction to alcohol. This last defect made it impossible for him to retain the editorial positions he later secured on magazines in Richmond, Philadelphia, and New York, despite the fact that the tales and book reviews he contributed greatly increased circulation. In May 1836, he married Virginia Clemm, a child of thirteen and the daughter of a paternal aunt. In April 1844, he moved his family to New York, and in January of the following year, his literary fortunes turned when his poem “The Raven” appeared in the New York Evening News. Overnight, he became the most talked-about man of letters in America. Early in 1847 his wife died, and the year 1848 saw the end of two unhappy love affairs.
Jay Parini, a poet and novelist, is Axinn Professor of English at Middlebury College. His books include the poetry collection Anthracite Country; the novel The Last Station; and biographies of John Steinbeck, William Faulkner, and Robert Frost, the last of which won the Chicago Tribune-Heartland Award for the best work of nonfiction of 2000. Among the many books he has edited are The Columbia History of American Poetry and The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature.
April Bernard’s books of poems are Blackbird Bye Bye, which won the Walt Whitman Prize from the Academy of American Poets; Psalms; Swan Electric; and the forthcoming Romanticism. She has also published a novel, Pirate Jenny. A former magazine editor for many years, she is now a professor of literature at Bennington College and is also on the faculty of the Bennington MFA writing seminars.
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