Edgar Allan Poe's tales and poems draw the reader into an unsettling world of mystery and fear.

 Possessed of a powerful, richly inventive imagination,Edgar Allan Poe explored the darkest corners of the human psyche and is recognized as one of the first writers to offer a genuine American voice.

 In"The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether","A Predicament","The Angel of the Odd"and other stories,characters are caught up in macabre situations, often with horrifying results. The poems are full of melancholic beauty whether in the disturbing images of death and events beyond the grave described in"The Raven"and"Lenore", or in the hypnotic fantasy of works such as"The Bells", "The City in the Sea"and"Annabel Lee".

 Possessed of a powerful, richly inventive imagination,Edgar Allan Poe explored the darkest corners of the human psyche and is recognized as one of the first writers to offer a genuine American voice.

THE RAVEN AND OTHER POEMS, 1845

Dedication

Preface

The Raven

The Valley 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--a Song

To F--s S. O----d

To F--

Sonnet---Silence

The Conqueror Worm

The Haunted Palace

Scenes from "Politian"

POEMS WRITTEN IN YOUTH

Sonnet--to Science

A! Aaraaf

Poe"s Notes to "A! Aaraaf"

Tamerlane

A Dream

Romance

Fairy-land

To--("The bowers whereat, in dreams, I see")

To the River

The Lake--To

Song ("I saw thee on thy bridal day")

To Helen ("Helen, thy beauty is to me")

FROM WORKS OF THE LATE E.A.POE(GRISWLD,1850)AND "ALONE"

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OTHER TEXTS FOR SOME OF THE POEMS

TALES