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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... tone, and seemingly inappropriate intrusions of the comic and absurd. “'The Fall of the House of Usher',” Tate writes, “was a little spoiled for me even at fourteen by the interjection of the 'Mad Tryst of Sir Launcelot Canning'.” The ...
... tones, irony is more often than not philosophically characterized by a “skepticism” engendered by seeing opposite possibilities in a situation, as is especially evident in the particularly complex, ambivalent and paradoxical skepticism ...
... tone of the tales and poems, all is treated with a seldom recognized halfhumorous ironic detachment from the plight of the “I” protagonist. This is true for both the apparently serious works and the comic and satiric works, though of ...
... tone—acquired temper. I went abroad. I took vigorous exercise.... I thought upon other subjects than Death. I discarded my medical books. “Buchan” I burned. I read no “Night Thoughts”—no fustian about churchyards—no bugaboo tales —such ...
... tone didactic,” the “tone enthusiastic,” the “tone natural,” the “tone laconic,” the “tone metaphysical,” and the “tone elevated, diffusive, and interjectional,” in the latter of which the “words must be all in a whirl, like a ...
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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