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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... Night. “Hillo! hillo, there!” said a gruff voice in reply. The Gothic terror is comically undercut by the reply, and it turns out that the hero has fallen asleep in the narrow berth of a ship, where he has sought refuge for the night ...
... Night Thoughts”—no fustian about churchyards—no bugaboo tales —such as this. The hero then tells us that “from that memorable night” his “charnel apprehensions” were “dismissed forever;” and with them “vanished the cataleptic disorder ...
... night before his impending execution. In an attempt to explain his obsession with the possibility that some “Imp” in the structure of the universe has victimized him, the narrator succeeds in convincing us not of his rationality but of ...
... night and left behind Its image on my spirit, or the moon Shone on my slumbers in her lofty noon Too coldly—or the stars—howe'er it was That dream was as that night wind—let it pass. I have been happy—tho' but in a dream. I have been ...
... will Shall overshadow thee: be still. III The night—tho' clear—shall frown— And the stars shall look not down, From their high thrones in the heaven, With light like Hope to mortals given— But their red Spirits of the Dead (1827, 1839)
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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Great Short Works of Edgar Allan Poe: Poems Tales Criticism Edgar Allan Poe No preview available - 2004 |