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Edgar Allan Poe

Complete Poems (Library of Classic Poets)

By Poe Edgar Allan

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| Hardcover | 9780517082454

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Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) is internationally renowned as a pioneering master of the macabre. He is regarded as one of the world's great short story writers as well as a great lyric poet, and is credited with inventing the detective story and the modern gothic horror tale. He has been an importanContinue

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) is internationally renowned as a pioneering master of the macabre. He is regarded as one of the world's great short story writers as well as a great lyric poet, and is credited with inventing the detective story and the modern gothic horror tale. He has been an important influence on many major American and European writers including William Faulkner, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Baudelaire, H.P. Lovecraft, and William Butler Yeats, among many others.
Poe's poetry, which is collected in this volume, is more personal than his prose. The themes of love, death, and despair which recur throughout reflect the anguish he suffered in his own troubled life. "Annabel Lee" is a haunting lament to his young wife, Virginia, who died of tuberculosis. "The Bells" is an eerie and melancholy meditation which recreates with brilliant musical language the hypnotic, funereal aura of ringing bells. "The Raven" is a comic tour de force in which the protagonist turns his strange visitor into a symbol of his own sorrow and loss. Poe's best poems remain some of the most popular and technically accomplished in the English language.
This book features a deluxe cover, ribbon marker, top stain, and decorative endpaper with a name plate.

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  • I racconti di Edgar Allan Poe

    La presentazione e le recensioni di I racconti di Edgar Allan Poe. Tutti i racconti dell'incubo, del mistero e del terrore nella straordinaria versione di Giorgio Manganelli. Inventore del racconto poliziesco e del thriller psicologico, nella sua ste ... (read full critics)

    Qlibri published on Mon, 3 Jan 2011

  • Welcome to my nightmare Share

    Edgar Allan Poe was born January 19, 1809. This would be his 194th birthday. Of course he famously died pretty much literally face down in the gutter. He was a tortured soul with a rough row to hoe, and problems with booze and dope. He was, however, ... (read full critics)

    blogcritics published on Sun, 19 Jan 2003

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  • English Books
  • Hardcover 128 Pages
  • Edition: New Ed
  • ISBN-10: 0517082454
  • ISBN-13: 9780517082454
  • Publisher: Gramercy
  • Pub date: Mar 20, 2001
  • Dimensions: 1419 mm x 968 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Paperback, Library Binding and Others
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