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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... called “selfparody” and “transcendental buffoonery,” which involves achieving a mystical sense of an “ideal” state beyond our limited earthly one by playing, as it were, a cosmic hoax on both the world and oneself. It has been ...
... called grotesques, sometimes arabesques, by the German (and French) writers of the day. These two words have complicated and intertwining histories; but clearly Poe was pointing out his philosophical and literary affinities with these ...
... called “Preface” and “Romance”) to Poe's third volume of poetry (1831) exhibits the same kind of complexity and ironic selfknowledge as “Sonnet—To Science.” Its first and last verses (as the poem usually is given in its shorter version) ...
... called the Outcast of the Universe (in his own dark “comedy,” “Wakefeld”), may be read also as the deluded romanticizing of the tipsy narrator, who perversely attributes a Romantic significance to an old drunk who wanders from bistro to ...
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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