Selected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe
Subtitle: poems, tales, essays and reviews
By: ed. with an introd. by David Galloway
Contributors: David Galloway (Editor)
Edition: Reprint
Series: The Penguin English Library
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 1985
Place of publication: Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 540
ISBN-13: 9780140430288
Description: And much of Madness and more of Sin And Horror the Soul of the Plot

The lines from 'Ligeia' epitomize the familiar Poe, the arch-priest of Gothic horror, author of 'The Masque of the Red Death' and 'The Pit and the Pendulum'. That Poe, unquestioned master of 'the Grotesque and Arabesque', is fully represented here, but the volume also includes generous selections from his poetry and critical writings. Together they amount to a portrait of a complex personality, that of a conscious aesthete, the most exotic of American writers, who was at the same time keenly engaged in an astonishing variety of interests. Nor are the 'Grotesque' tales the simple manipulations of terror that they seem; David Galloway's introduction reveals their author as a profoundly serious writer, whose investigations of extreme states of conscious- ness have a particular relevance for our time.

The cover shows a detail from 'Oiseau' by Odilon Redon (photo Jean-Pierre Leloir, Snark International)

The portrait of Edgar Allan Poe inside the front cover is by Ismael Gentz
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Notes: Cover title: Selected writings.
1st ed.: 1967.
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Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Note on the Text; title: 1. POEMS; title: Stanzas; title: Sonnet — To Science; title: A1 Aaraaf; title: Romance; title: To Helen; title: Israfel; title: The City in the Sea; title: The Sleeper; title: Lenore; title: The Valley of Unrest; title: The Raven; title: Ulalume; title: For Annie; title: A Valentine; title: Annabel Lee; title: The Bells; title: Eldorado; title: 2. TALES; title: Manuscript Found in a Bottle; title: Ligeia; title: The Man that was Used Up; title: The Fall of the House of Usher; title: William Wilson; title: The Man of the Crowd; title: The Murders in the Rue Morgue; title: A Descent into the Maelström; title: Eleonora; title: The Oval Portrait; title: The Masque of the Red Death; title: The Pit and the Pendulum; title: The Tell-Tale Heart; title: The Gold-Bug; title: The Black Cat; title: The Purloined Letter; title: The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar; title: The Cask of Amontillado; title: Hop-Frog; title: 3. ESSAYS AND REVIEWS; title: Letter to B—; title: Georgia Scenes; title: The Drake-Halleck Review (excerpts); title: Watkins Tottle; title: The Philosophy of Furniture; title: Wyandotté; title: Music; title: Time and Space; title: TwiceT01d Tales; title: The American Drama (excerpts); title: Hazlitt; title: The Philosophy of Composition; title: Song-Writing; title: On Imagination; title: The Veil of the soul; title: The Poetic Principle (excerpts); title: Notes