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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... suggesting conscious selfparody. The Dupin stories (184145) are burlesqued in the comic detective story “'Thou Art the Man'” (1844); the suspended animation of “M. Valdemar” (1845) is made comic in Count Allamistakeo's resurrection in ...
... suggested was a vision of “Supernal 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 ...
... suggest that Science is, for its time in fashion, but another construct of the mind—less appealing than the old ... suggests that even horror or sorrow is better than “nothing” at all. The visionary perception of, first, childhood's ...
... suggests that the indistinct “you” whom Montresor addresses in the first paragraph is probably his deathbed ... suggest the delusiveness of the experience as the firstperson narrator renders it. As in Henry James and Joseph Conrad, there ...
... suggested. Moreover, the earnestness of his conversion suggests parody of didactic magazine fiction (“out of Evil proceeded Good.... very excess wrought in my spirit an inevitable revulsion”), especially when we remember Poe's ...
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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