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EDGAR ALLAN POE POETRY AND TALES Patrick F. Quinn, editor THE LIBRARY OF AMERICA E-BOOK CLASSICS Volume compilation, notes, and chronology copyright © 1984 by Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., New York, N.Y. All rights reserved. No part of the book may be reproduced commercially by offset-lithographic or equivalent copying devices without the permission of the publisher. Visit our website at www.loa.org Texts from Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe are Copyright © 1969 and 1978 by The President and Fellows of Harvard College. All rights reserved. Texts from The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe are Copyright © 1965 by the Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia. All rights reserved. The text of Eureka: A Prose Poem is copyright © 1975 by Roland W. Nelson. All rights reserved. THE LIBRARY OF AMERICA, a nonprofit publisher, is dedicated to publishing, and keeping in print, authoritative editions of America’s best and most significant writing. Each year the Library adds new volumes to its collection of essential works by America’s foremost novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and statesmen. Visit our website at www.loa.org to find out more about The Library of America, and to sign up to receive our occasional newsletter with exclusive interviews with Library of America authors and editors, and our popular Story of the Week e-mails. Print ISBN 978–0–940450–18–9 eISBN 978–1–59853–387–3 Edgar Allan Poe’s Poetry and Tales is kept in print by a gift from FREDERICK W. BEINECKE, a member of The Raven Society at the University of Virginia, and CANDACE K. BEINECKE to the Guardians of American Letters Fund, established by The Library of America to ensure that every volume in the series will be permanently available. The text of Eureka: A Prose Poem reprinted here was established from the authoritative documents by Roland W. Nelson. This volume also prints texts from Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe edited by Thomas Ollive Mabbott and published by The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press and texts from The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe edited by Floyd Stovall and published by The University Press of Virginia, with the permission of the publishers. Contents Each section has its own table of contents. Poetry Tales and Sketches The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym The Journal of Julius Rodman Eureka: A Prose Poem Chronology Note on the Texts Notes Index of Titles Index of First Lines POETRY Contents (Poem titles not given by Poe are indicated by quotation marks) PREFACES Preface (Tamerlane and Other Poems—1827) Letter to Mr. —— —— (Poems—1831) Preface (The Raven and Other Poems—1845) POEMS O, Tempora! O, Mores! To Margaret “To Octavia” Tamerlane Song Dreams Spirits of the Dead Evening Star Imitation “Stanzas” A Dream “The Happiest Day” The Lake—To —— Sonnet—To Science Al Aaraaf “Mysterious Star!” Romance Introduction

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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 huma
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