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This magnificently decorated edition presents Edgar Allan Poe's complete poems in addition to his most important critical essays on poetry. Featuring such immortal works as "The Raven" and "The Bells," the book meticulously re-creates the famed 1900 Endymion edition. Poe's dark obsessions and fascination with the supernatural find a perfect match in the powerful and haunting imagery of artist W. Heath Robinson. AUTHOR: The father of the detective novel and an innovator in the genre of science fiction, Edgar Allan Poe (1809–49) made his living as America's first great literary critic. Today he is best remembered for his short stories and poems, haunting works of horror and mystery that remain popular around the world. W. Heath Robinson (1872–1944) illustrated more than 60 books, including Bill the Minder, The Giant Crab and Other Tales from Old India, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, and The Water Babies as well as several volumes of stories and poems by Rudyard Kipling.

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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 nineteenth 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.

Author Biography

The father of the detective novel and an innovator in the genre of science fiction, Edgar Allan Poe (1809-49) made his living as America's first great literary critic. Today he is best remembered for his short stories and poems, haunting works of horror and mystery that remain popular around the world. W. Heath Robinson (1872-1944) illustrated more than 60 books, including Bill the Minder, The Giant Crab and Other Tales from Old India, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, and The Water Babies as well as several volumes of stories and poems by Rudyard Kipling.

Table of Contents

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

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This magnificently decorated edition presents Edgar Allan Poe's complete poems in addition to his most important critical essays on poetry. Featuring such immortal works as "The Raven" and "The Bells," the book meticulously re-creates the famed 1900 Endymion edition. Poe's dark obsessions and fascination with the supernatural find a perfect match in the powerful and haunting imagery of artist W. Heath Robinson.

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