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100 1 _aPoe, Edgar Allan,
_d1809-1849
245 1 4 _aThe poems of Edgar Allan Poe
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2025-10-06
508 _aChris Curnow, Turgut Dincer, Linda Cantoni, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive). Dedicated to the memory of our late colleagues Chris Curnow and Turgut Dincer.
520 _a"The poems of Edgar Allan Poe" by Edgar Allan Poe is a collection of poems written in the mid-19th century. It assembles his celebrated lyrics alongside earlier pieces and a few prose reflections on poetics, with themes centered on love, loss, beauty, death, and hypnotic sound. Readers can expect atmospheric ballads and elegies in which speakers are haunted by idealized, often lost women, and by dreamlike or macabre visions. The opening of the volume presents publisher material and a detailed contents list, followed by a substantial introduction that defends Poe’s character, sketches his hard-pressed life and career, and explains his craft—his emphasis on melody, refrain, brevity, and the non-didactic “poetic principle”—while reassessing “The Raven” among his other lyrics. It then reprints Poe’s modest 1845 preface and his dedication to Elizabeth Barrett Barrett. After this, the collection launches into signature poems—“The Raven,” “The Bells,” “Ulalume,” “Lenore,” “Annabel Lee,” and others—that stage grief, longing, and the supernatural through rich sound patterns and refrains, before moving into pieces like “The City in the Sea,” “The Conqueror Worm,” and “The Haunted Palace,” which deepen the gothic mood. The section closes by turning to poems written in youth, where early romantic yearning, classical invocations, and nocturnal imagery already show the seeds of his later voice. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cLondon: George Bell & Sons, 1900
653 _aFantasy poetry, American
700 1 _aWilliams, H. Noel
_q(Hugh Noel),
_d1870-1925
700 1 _aRobinson, W. Heath
_q(William Heath),
_d1872-1944
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/poemsillustrated00poeerich/page/n1/mode/2up
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76996
999 _c117720
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