One of the most famous poems in the English language, ‘The Raven’ first appeared in the January 29, 1845, edition of the New York Evening Mirror. It brought Edgar Allan Poe, then in his mid-30s and a well-known poet, critic, and short story writer, his first taste of celebrity on a grand scale. ‘The Raven’ remains Poe’s best-known work, yet it is only one of a dazzling series of poems and stories that won him an enduring place in world literature.
This volume contains ‘The Raven’ and 40 others of Edgar Allan Poe’s most memorable poems, among them ‘The Bells, ‘ ‘Ulalume, ‘ ‘Israfel, ‘ ‘To Helen, ‘ ‘The Conqueror Worm, ‘ ‘Eldorado, ‘ and ‘Annabel Lee.’ Together they reveal the extraordinary spectrum of Poe’s personality — his idealism; his visionary qualities; his responsiveness to beauty, to love, and to women; and his susceptibility to the eerie and the morbid. They reveal, too, his virtuoso command of poetic language, rhythms, and figures of speech — command that would make his one of the most distinctive voices in all of poetry.A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
Table of Content
‘To – – (‘I saw thee on thy bridal day-‘)’Dreams
Spirits of the Dead
Evening Star
A Dream within a Dream
Stanzas
A Dream
‘The Happiest Day-The Happiest Hour’
The Lake: To –
Sonnet-To Science
Romance
‘To – (‘The bowers whereat, in dreams, I see’)’
To the River –
‘To – (‘I heed not that my earthly lot’)’
Fairy-Land
‘To Helen (‘Helen, thy beauty is to me’)’
Israfel
The City in the Sea
The Sleeper
Lenore
The Valley of Unrest
The Coliseum (also included in the verse play Politian)
‘To One in Paradise (included in the story ‘The Assignation’)’
To F-
Sonnet- To Zante
‘The Haunted Palace (included in the story ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’)’
Sonnet-Silence
‘The Conqueror Worm (also included in the story ‘Ligeia’)’
Dream-Land
The Raven
Eulalie-A Song
To M. L. S-
Ulalume
‘To – -(‘Not long ago, the writer of these lines’)’
‘To Helen (‘I saw thee once-once only-years ago:’)’
Eldorado
For Annie
To My Mother
Annabel Lee
The Bells
Alone [has been attributed to Poe]
Alphabetical List of Titles
Alphabetical List of First Lines
About the 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.
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