COMPLETE
POEMS
EDGAR
ALLAN POE
GENRE:
POETRY
SYNOPSIS
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) is
internationally renowned as a pioneering master of the macabre. He is
regarded as one of the world's great short story writers as well as a
great lyric poet, and is credited with inventing the detective story
and the modern gothic horror tale. He has been an important influence
on many major American and European writers including William
Faulkner, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Baudelaire, H.P. Lovecraft, and William
Butler Yeats, among many others.
Poe's poetry, which is collected in this volume, is more personal than his prose. The themes of love, death, and despair which recur throughout reflect the anguish he suffered in his own troubled life. "Annabel Lee" is a haunting lament to his young wife, Virginia, who died of tuberculosis. "The Bells" is an eerie and melancholy meditation which recreates with brilliant musical language the hypnotic, funereal aura of ringing bells. "The Raven" is a comic tour de force in which the protagonist turns his strange visitor into a symbol of his own sorrow and loss. Poe's best poems remain some of the most popular and technically accomplished in the English language.
This book features a deluxe cover, ribbon marker, top stain, and decorative endpaper with a name plate.
Poe's poetry, which is collected in this volume, is more personal than his prose. The themes of love, death, and despair which recur throughout reflect the anguish he suffered in his own troubled life. "Annabel Lee" is a haunting lament to his young wife, Virginia, who died of tuberculosis. "The Bells" is an eerie and melancholy meditation which recreates with brilliant musical language the hypnotic, funereal aura of ringing bells. "The Raven" is a comic tour de force in which the protagonist turns his strange visitor into a symbol of his own sorrow and loss. Poe's best poems remain some of the most popular and technically accomplished in the English language.
This book features a deluxe cover, ribbon marker, top stain, and decorative endpaper with a name plate.
MY
TAKE
If
you have never read anything (short story or poem) by Edgar Allan
Poe, I would suggest starting with this book. You may find that many
of Poe's poems strange, depressing, or just downright weird. Some of
them strike me that way as well. However, this collection contains
some poems that MUST be read. My all time favorite by Poe is The
Raven, which is included in this book. Others that I feel are worth
mentioning are: Annabel Lee, A Dream Within a Dream, Serenade, The
Sleeper, Romance, and Evening Star.
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