The Essential Poe
Series: Essential Poets, v. 14
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Hopewell, New Jersey
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 93
ISBN-13: 9780880014786
Copyright date: 1991
Subjects: 19th century fiction; Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849; English; Poetry; USA; American - General; Poetry / General; General; Fantasy poetry, American
Description: [Poe's] poems have never gone out of print He has been translated into a vanety of lan- guages. Except for Frost, he may be the most popular American poet It is not too much to say that his yeaming for love, a home of utter peace, a place in the sun—cast against the grinding industrial explosion of the future— speaks not merely ot the American Dream but also of its latent, grotesque futility Poe understood the new world as an orphanage and himself as artist among the Philistines.
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Table of contents: title: Dreams 17; title: Imitation 18; title: The Lake—To— 19; title: Sonnet—To Science 20; title: Romance 20; title: To the River Po 21; title: Fairy-Land 21; title: Alone 23; title: To Helen 24; title: Israfel 24; title: The Sleeper 26; title: The valley of Unrest 28; title: The City in the Sea 29; title: To One in Paradise 31; title: The Coliseum 32; title: Bridal Ballad 33; title: The Haunted Palace 35; title: Sonnet—Silence 36; title: The Conqueror Worm 37; title: Lenore; title: Dream-Land 39; title: Eulalie A Song 41; title: The Raven 42; title: A Valentine 46; title: Ulalume—A Ballad 47; title: The Bells 51; title: To Helen 54; title: A Dream Within a Dream; title: For Annie 57; title: Eldorado 61; title: To My Mother 62; title: Annabel Lee 62; title: LETTER TO B; title: THE PHILOSOPHY OF COMPOSITION; title: NOTES 87; title: ABOUT THE EDITOR