Collected Tales, Poems, and Other Writings of Edgar Allan Poe

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A collection of more than 50 of Edgar Allan Poe’s most important works, which established him as one of the most distinctive voices in American literature, Tales, Poems and Other Writings of Edgar Allan Poe brings together in one volume stories such as “The Fall of the House of Usher,” “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Purloined Letter” as well as his Gothic narrative poem “The Raven” and some his most significant critical writings. Alongside authoritative annotated texts of each work, this book also includes a complete Reader’s Guide to Poe’s work, helping explore the contexts, style, and reception of his writing from his own time to today. Related works by the likes of Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson and Nathaniel Hawthorne are also included for comparative reading and study. Cover page Halftitle page Title page Copyright page CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS PART I Introduction CHRONOLOGY OF EDGAR ALLAN POE’S LIFE AND TIMES ROMANTICISM AND THE GOTHIC THE ANTEBELLUM PUBLISHING SCENE CONTEMPORARY REPUTATION RECEPTION HISTORY EMERGING TRENDS IN POE SCHOLARSHIP ADDITIONAL READING SCOPE OF THE PRESENT VOLUME NOTES PART II Tales POE’S FICTION-WRITING CAREER GENERIC CONSIDERATIONS THEMATIC CONSIDERATIONS ANTEBELLUM CONTEXTS MODERN RESONANCES Ms. Found in a Bottle1 Berenice1 Morella1 Ligeia1 How to Write a Blackwood Article1 A Predicament1 The Man That Was Used Up1 The Fall of the House of Usher1 William Wilson1 The Man of the Crowd1 The Murders in the Rue Morgue1 A Descent into the Maelström1 Never Bet the Devil Your Head A Tale With a Moral1 The Masque of the Red Death1 The Pit and the Pendulum1 The Tell-Tale Heart1 The Gold-Bug1 The Black Cat1 The Premature Burial1 The Purloined Letter1 The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether1 The Balloon-Hoax1 The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq. Some Words with a Mummy1 The Imp of the Perverse1 The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar1 The Cask of Amontillado1 Hop-Frog1 NOTES PART III Poems POE’S CAREER AS A POET APPRECIATING POE’S POETRY SONNET—TO SCIENCE1 ALONE1 TO HELEN1 ISRAFEL1 THE SLEEPER1 THE CITY IN THE SEA1 THE HAUNTED PALACE1 THE CONQUEROR WORM1 DREAM-LAND1 THE RAVEN1 TO – – –ULALUME: A BALLAD1 THE BELLS1 ANNABEL LEE1 NOTES PART IV Eureka: A Prose Poem from Eureka: A Prose Poem1 NOTES PART V Letters, Prefaces, and Critical Writings From “Letter to B–––”1 From Night and Morning.1 A Novel. By the author of Pelham, Rienzi, Eugene Aram, &c. 2 vols. Re-published by Harper & Brothers, New York. Guy Fawkes; or The Gunpowder Treason. An Historical Romance. By WILLIAM HARRISON AINSWORTH, Author of “The Tower of London,” “Jack Sheppard,” &c. Philadelphia. Lea and Blanchard. 1 From Ballads and Other Poems. By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.1 Author of “Voices of the Night,” “Hyperion,” &c. Second Edition. John Owen: Cambridge. Twice-Told Tales. By Nathaniel Hawthorne. James Monroe & Co.: Boston.1 Twice-Told Tales. By Nathaniel Hawthorne. Two Volumes. Boston: James Munroe and Co.1 Some Secrets of the Magazine Prison-House1 From “Anastatic Printing”1 Preface to The Raven and Other Poems1 The Philosophy of Composition1 From “The Poetic Principle”1 From Poe (Fortress Monroe, VA) to John Allan (Richmond, VA), December 22, 18281 From Poe (Baltimore, MD) to Thomas W. White 3 (Richmond, VA), April 30, 1835 From Poe (Richmond, VA) to Mrs. Maria Clemm 7 (and Miss Virginia E. Clemm) (Baltimore, MD), August 29, 1835 From Poe (Richmond, VA) to John P. Kennedy (Baltimore, MD), February 11, 1836 From Poe (Philadelphia, PA) to Philip P. Cooke 9 (Charlestown, VA), September 21, 1839 From Poe (New York, NY) to Frederick W. Thomas 10 (Washington, DC), May 4, 1845 From Poe (New York, NY) to Philip P. Cooke (Millwood, VA), August 9, 1846 From Poe (New York, NY) to George W. Eveleth 15 (Phillips, ME), December 15, 1846 From Poe (New York, NY) to George W. Eveleth (Phillips, ME), January 4, 1848 NOTES