Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) is the poet of the night world, of the inexplicable, the uncanny. His poems do not analyse, they do not explain: they exist with the intensity of hallucinations. In the breathtakingly seductive beauty of 'To Helen’ - 'Like those Nicéan barks of yore, / that gently o’ er a perfumed sea. . . ’ , or the claustrophobic horror of 'The Raven’ , Poe offers haunting alternative realities, as strange - and strangely familiar - as our dreams and nightmares. Yet Poe was more than a poet of American gothic. He was translated by Baudelaire and Mallarmé, becoming a key figure in French Symbolism; he was an influential critic. This edition contains all Poe’ s poetry and his three most important essays. With an introduction by the poet C. H. Sisson, it is an indispensable collection of the work of one of the nineteenth century’ s most compelling and original poets.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Table of Contents Introduction POEMS To Helen The Raven The Vallye of Unrest Bridal Ballad The Sleeper The Coliseum Lenore Catholic Hymn Israfel Dreamland Sonnet: To Zante The City in the Sea To One in Paradise Eulalie T F---s S. O---d To F--- Sonnet: Silence The Conqueror Worm The Haunted Palace Scenese from Politian POEMS WRITTEN IN YOUTH Sonnet to Science Al Aaraaf Tamerlane A Dream Romance Fairyland To--- To the River--- To Lake. To--- Song LATER POEMS A Dream within a Dream The Bells To Helen A Valentine An Enigma To--- --- To my Mother Eldorado To--- To M.L.S--- For Annie Ulalume Annabel Lee ESSAYS ON POETRY The Poetic Principle The Rationale of Verse The Philosphy of Composition
