Edgar Allan Poe: Poetry & Tales (LOA #19)Library of America, 1984 M08 15 - 1408 pages 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. |
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Contents
Preface Tamerlane and Other Poems1827 | 9 |
Preface The Raven and Other Poems1845 | 18 |
Tamerlane | 24 |
Song | 31 |
The LakeTo | 37 |
Mysterious Star | 52 |
Το | 56 |
Hymn | 70 |
The ThousandandSecond Tale of Scheherazade | 787 |
Some Words with a Mummy | 805 |
The Power of Words | 822 |
The Facts in the Case of M Valdemar | 833 |
The Sphinx | 843 |
The Domain of Arnheim | 855 |
Mellonta Tauta | 871 |
Landors Cottage | 886 |
The Haunted Palace | 76 |
SonnetSilence | 77 |
A Valentine | 86 |
The Bells | 92 |
Preface to Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque | 129 |
Tales and Sketches | 130 |
The Duc De LOmelette | 143 |
Loss of Breath | 151 |
BonBon | 164 |
Four Beasts in OneThe HomoCameleopard | 181 |
MS Found in a Bottle | 189 |
The Assignation | 200 |
Lionizing | 212 |
ShadowA Parable | 218 |
Berenice | 225 |
Morella | 234 |
King Pest | 240 |
Mystification | 253 |
Ligeia | 262 |
How to Write a Blackwood Article | 278 |
The Devil in the Belfry | 298 |
The Man That Was Used Up | 307 |
The Fall of the House of Usher | 317 |
William Wilson | 337 |
The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion | 358 |
The Business Man | 373 |
The Man of the Crowd | 388 |
A Descent into the Maelström | 432 |
The Colloquy of Monos and Una | 449 |
Eleonora | 468 |
The Oval Portrait | 481 |
The Mystery of Marie Rogêt | 506 |
The TellTale Heart | 555 |
The Black Cat | 597 |
The Spectacles | 618 |
The Oblong Box | 643 |
The Premature Burial | 666 |
The Purloined Letter | 680 |
The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether | 699 |
Mesmeric Revelation | 717 |
Thou Art the Man | 728 |
The BalloonHoax | 743 |
The Angel of the Odd | 756 |
The Literary Life of Thingum Bob Esq | 766 |
HopFrog | 899 |
Von Kempelen and His Discovery | 909 |
Xing a Paragrab | 917 |
The LightHouse | 924 |
The Island of the Fay | 933 |
Morning on the Wissahiccon | 939 |
Byron and Miss Chaworth | 945 |
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon | 1003 |
Preface | 1007 |
Chapter I | 1009 |
Chapter II | 1018 |
Chapter III | 1031 |
Chapter IV | 1039 |
Chapter V | 1046 |
Chapter VI | 1053 |
Chapter VII | 1062 |
Chapter VIII | 1068 |
Chapter IX | 1076 |
Chapter X | 1083 |
Chapter XI | 1088 |
Chapter XII | 1094 |
Chapter XIII | 1103 |
Chapter XV | 1120 |
Chapter XVI | 1125 |
Chapter XVII | 1130 |
Chapter XVIII | 1135 |
Chapter XX | 1146 |
Chapter XXI | 1152 |
Chapter XXII | 1156 |
The Journal of Julius Rodman | 1183 |
Chapter IIntroductory | 1187 |
Chapter II | 1196 |
Chapter III | 1208 |
Chapter IV | 1220 |
Chapter V | 1232 |
Chapter VI | 1244 |
Chronology | 1361 |
Note on the Texts | 1370 |
Index of First Lines | 1377 |
72 | 1378 |
38 | 1383 |
88 | 1388 |
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