The importance of Edgar Allan Poe to literary history can hardly be exaggerated; his genius and originality, both in terms of language and technique, influenced the French Symbolists of the late 19th century and thus changed the course of modern literature. Although chiefly remembered for his short stories, poetry was his first love, and this magnificently decorated edition presents Poe's complete poems in addition to his most important critical essays on poetry.
Featuring such immortal works as "The Raven" "Annabel Lee," and "The Bells," this volume meticulously re-creates the famed 1900 Endymion edition, a series comprising the works of Robert Browning, Keats, and other luminaries. Poe's dark obsessions and fascination with the supernatural find a perfect match in the powerful and haunting imagery of artist W. Heath Robinson, whose headpieces, tailpieces, decorated titles, and other illustrations appear throughout the book.
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
INTRODUCTION
PREFACE AND DEDICATION TO THE VOLUME OF 1845
POEMS
The Raven
The Bells
Ulalume
Bridal Ballad
Lenore
A Valentine
An Enigma
To Helen
Annabel Lee
For Annie
To F__s S.__ d
To__ __
The City in the Sea
The Conqueror Worm
The Sleeper
The Coliseum
Dreamland
Eulalie
To my Mother
Eldorado
To F__
To One in Paradise
Hymn
A Dream within a Dream
To Zante
The Haunted Palace
Silence
Israfel
To Mr. L. S.__
The Valley of Unrest
POEMS WRITTEN IN YOUTH
To Helen
Sonnet: To Science
Spirits of the Dead
Evening Star
Fairyland
The Lake: To__
A Dream
A Paean
"The Happiest Day"
Alone
Stanzas
To__
To the River
To__
Song
Dreams
Romance
Tamerlane
Al Aaraaf
Notes to Al Aaraaf
SCENES FROM POLITIAN
LETTER TO MR. __
ESSAY ON THE POETIC PRINCIPLE
ESSAY ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF COMPOSITION