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The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (two volumes)

Praise for Poetry & Tales: “The first truly dependable collection of Poe’s poetry and tales…. Poe is central to the American canon, both for us and for the rest of the world.”—Harold Bloom

Praise for Essays & Reviews: “[Poe’s] most thoughtful notices set a level of popular book reviewing that has remained unequalled in America, and that led George Bernard Shaw to call him ‘the greatest journalistic critic of his time.’”—Kenneth Silverman

Overview

Overview

Story of the Week Edgar Allan Poe, “The Angel of the Odd”

Story of the Week Edgar Allan Poe, “Morning on the Wissahiccon”

Read throughout the world, admired by Dostoyevsky and translated by Baudelaire, Edgar Allan Poe has become a legendary figure, representing the artist as obsessed outcast and romantic failure. His nightmarish visions, shaped by cool artistic calculation, reveal some of the dark possibilities of human experience.

In the complete and uniquely authoritative Library of America collection of Poe’s poetry and tales, well-known works of “mystery and imagination” and his best-known verse are collected with early poems, rarely published stories and humorous sketches, and the ecstatic prose poem Eureka.

Included here are all the classic tales and sketches: “MS. Found in a Bottle,” “Ligeia,” “The Fall of the House of Usher,” “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” “A Descent into the Maelstrom,” “The Masque of the Red Death,” “The Pit and the Pendulum,” “The Tell-Tale Heart,” “The Gold-Bug,” “The Black Cat,” “The Premature Burial,” “The Purloined Letter,” “The Cask of Amontillado,” “The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym,” and 63 others.

And all the poems: “To Helen,” “Tamerlane,” “The City in the Sea,” “The Conqueror Worm,” “The Raven,” “Ulalume—A Ballad,” “The Bells,” “Eldorado,” “Annabel Lee,” and 70 others, including his only attempt at drama, “Politian.”

Nineteenth-century readers were far more likely to know Edgar Allan Poe as “tomahawk man,” the writer of trenchant, acerbic literary reviews, than for his ghoulish tales or mesmeric poems. Drawing from the nearly 1,000 essays, articles, reviews, columns, and critical notices published during Poe’s fourteen years of writing to (and sometimes missing) deadline, Essays and Reviews is the most complete one-volume edition of his nonfiction work ever published.

Included in this Library of America collection are Poe’s reviews and candid opinions of the leading literary figures of his day: Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Cullen Bryant, James Fenimore Cooper, and many more, including over 100 pages on his famous dispute with Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, which Poe biographer Kenneth Silverman has called “arguably the longest, strangest, and most-publicized personal war in American literary history.”

The volume also features all his major writings on the theory of poetry, the art of fiction, and the duties of a critic: “The Rationale of Verse,” “The Philosophy of Composition,” “The Poetic Principle,” and “About Critics and Criticism.” Additional articles on South Sea exploration, drama, geography, music, transcendentalism, ancient languages, and modern cities testify to the wide range of Poe’s interests.

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