Great Short Works of Edgar Allan Poe: Poems Tales CriticismThe classic poems and spine-tingling stories of an American gothic master collected in one volume Of all the American writers, Edgar Allan Poe staked out perhaps the most unique and vivid reputation as a master of the macabre. Even today, in the age of horror movies and high-tech haunted houses, Poe remains the first choice of entertainment for many who want a spine-chilling thrill. Born in Boston in 1809, and dead at the age of forty, Poe wrote across several fields during his life and was noted for his poetry and short stories as well as his criticism. The best of each of these is collected here, including the classic poem “The Raven,” and beloved stories like “The Tell-Tale Heart.” In his introduction to this volume, G. R. Thompson argues that Poe was a great satirist and comedic craftsman, as well as a formidable Gothic writer. “All of Poe’s fiction,” Thompson writes, “and the poems as well, can be seen as one coherent piece—as the work of one of the greatest ironists of world literature.” Great Short Works of Edgar Allen Poe includes some of these classics:
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... Beauty. The “ideal” and the “demonic” are, of course, major elements in Poe's consciously developed image, but so too are the comic and satiric. The real questions are: how to develop a reading inclusive of these divergent tendencies ...
... Beauty,” an ideal above the mundane considerations of deadlines and commerce. This image of himself is in accord with Baudelaire's conception of Poe. Yet it is probable that Poe actually did feel that his achievement in poetry did not ...
... beauty existing in the world without a certain degree of strangeness in the expression'.” This, of course, is just what the narrator of “Ligeia,” also alluding to Francis Bacon, says of her beautifully strange face. The implications for ...
... beauty God has created in the world but insinuate the melancholy facts of death, imperfection, purposelessness in contrast to man's futile imagining of an ideal state of harmony and beauty. Four philosophical dialogs, with and among ...
... beauty from his birth: Whose fervid, flick'ring torch of life was lit From the sun and stars, whence he had drawn forth A passionate light—such for his spirit was fit— And yet that spirit knew not—in the hour Of its own fervor—what had ...
Contents
Introduction 18291831 | |
To Helen 1831 1845 | |
The Sleeper 1831 1849 | |
The Assignation The Visionary 1834 1845 | |
Some Passages from the Life of a Lion Lionizing | |
To One in Paradise 18331849 | |
HopFrog or the Eight Chained OurangOutangs | |
Review of TwiceTold Tales By Nathaniel | |
The Philosophy of Composition 1846 | |
Excerpts from The Poetic Principle 18481850 | |
Review of TwiceTold Tales By Nathaniel Hawthorne | |
Lenore 18311843 | |
UlalumeA Ballad 18471849 | |
Eldorado 1849 | |
1832 1836 | |
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The Coliseum 1833 1850 | |
Ligeia 1838 1845 | |
About the Author | |
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