Sonnet to Science | Edgar Allan Poe
Sonnet of Science exposes Poe’s complicated relationship with measurable fact and the immeasurable life.
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Spirits Of The Dead | Edgar Allan Poe
Poe was only 18 when he wrote this mournful poem of solitude and loneliness.
A Dream | Edgar Allan Poe
A short poem by Edgar Allan Poe about the power and danger of dreams, wish fulfilment, and acceptance of reality.
Alone | Edgar Allan Poe
Some argue that “Alone” offers the best glimpse into the poet’s life, while others say it is a poem for dealing with times when the bad outweights the good.
Annabel Lee | Edgar Allan Poe
A well known poem, it was Poe’s last completed before his death, and explores the love and death of a beautiful woman, similar to many of his works.
The Coliseum | Edgar Allan Poe
The speaker contemplates the rise and fall of Rome amid the fallen grandeur of the Coliseum in this classic poem by E.A. Poe
The Bells | Edgar Allan Poe
Growing steadily darker in tone, Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Bells” is a poem that begs interpretation along Poe’s classic themes of mania, madness and dream.
The City And The Sea | Edgar Allan Poe
First published as ‘The Doomed City’ in 1831 and later as ‘The City of Sin’, it tells the story of a city ruled by Death itself.
Al Aaraaf | Edgar Allan Poe
Poe’s longest poem, which he claims to have written at 15, Al Aaraaf is based on stories of the Qu’ran and tells of a middle place between heaven and earth.
The Sleeper | Edgar Allan Poe
Love transcends death in this mystical, supernatural poem by Edgar Allan Poe.
The Raven | Edgar Allan Poe
Among Poe’s most well known works, The Raven is lyrical and supernatural, chronicling a distraught lover’s descent into madness after a strange visitor.
Bridal Ballad | Edgar Allan Poe
A young woman rationalizes her choice to marry a wealthy man after her beloved is killed in war.
The Conqueror Worm | Edgar Allan Poe
The cycle of life and is a play where actors chase at phantoms. To paraphrase Shakespeare, the worm is the final conqueror of man.
The Valley Of Unrest | Edgar Allan Poe
A short poem about the restless spirits of soldiers. Poe displays his talent for constructing imaginary landscapes in The Valley Of Unrest.
Edgar Allan Poe Poems
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Edgar Allan Poe Illustrated Collected Works
It’s not every author that gets a book named after him, let alone illustrated. This (posthumously) exhuastive collection of Edgar Allan Poe’s work is illuminated with illustrations of some of the 20th Century’s most interesting, gruesome and grotesque artists, inlcuding: […]
The Cask Of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe
THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO by Edgar Allan Poe(1846)
The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe
THE BLACK CAT by Edgar Allan Poe (1843) FOR the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief. Mad indeed would I be to expect it, in a case where […]
Fall Of The House Of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe
The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe (1839) Son coeur est un luth suspendu; Sitôt qu’on le touche il résonne. De Béranger.