The Complete Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe E-Book

Edgar Allan Poe

• Herausgeber: Edgar Allan Poe
• Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

Beschreibung

During the last few years every incident in the life of Edgar Poe has been subjected to microscopic investigation. The result has not been altogether satisfactory. On the one hand, envy and prejudice have magnified every blemish of his character into crime, whilst on the other, blind admiration would depict him as far "too good for human nature's daily food." Let us endeavor to judge him impartially, granting that he was as a mortal subject to the ordinary weaknesses of mortality, but that he was tempted sorely, treated badly, and suffered deeply.

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Edgar Allan Poe

The Complete Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe

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Table of contents

Memoir of Edgar Allan Poe

Poems of Later Life

Preface

The Raven

The Bells

Ulalume

To Helen

Annabel Lee

A Valentine

An Enigma

To My Mother

For Annie

To F——

To Frances S. Osgood

Eldorado

Eulalie

A Dream within a Dream

Marie Louise (Shew)

(2) To Marie Louise (Shew)

The City in the Sea

The Sleeper

Bridal Ballad

Notes

Poems of Manhood

Lenore

To One in Paradise

The Coliseum

The Haunted Palace

The Conqueror Worm

Silence

Dreamland

To Zante

Hymn

Notes

Scenes from Politian

Note on Politian

Poems of Youth

Introduction (1831)

Sonnet — to Science

Al Aaraf

Tamerlane

To Helen

The Valley of Unrest

Israfel

To ——

To ——

To the River

Song

Spirits of the Dead

A Dream

Romance

Fairyland

The Lake

Evening Star

Imitation

"The Happiest Day"

Hymn

Hymn to Aristogeiton and Harmodius

Dreams

"In Youth I have Known One"

A Pæan

Notes

Doubtful Poems

Alone

To Isadore

The Village Street

The Forest Reverie

Notes

Prose Poems

The Island of the Fay

The Power of Words

The Colloquy of Monos and Una

The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion

Shadow — a Parable

Silence — a Fable

Essays

The Poetic Principle

The Philosophy of Composition

Old English Poetry

Memoir of Edgar Allan Poe

During the last few years every incident in the life of Edgar Poe has been subjected to microscopic investigation. The result has not been altogether satisfactory. On the one hand, envy and prejudice have magnified every blemish of his character into crime, whilst on the other, blind admiration would depict him as far "too good for human nature's daily food." Let us endeavor to judge him impartially, granting that he was as a mortal subject to the ordinary weaknesses of mortality, but that he was tempted sorely, treated badly, and suffered deeply.The poet's ancestry and parentage are chiefly interesting as explaining some of the complexities of his character. His father, David Poe, was of Anglo-Irish extraction. Educated for the Bar, he elected to abandon it for the stage. In one of his tours through the chief towns of the United States he met and married a young actress, Elizabeth Arnold, member of an English family distinguished for its musical talents. As an actress, Elizabeth Poe acquired some reputation, but became even better known for her domestic virtues. In those days the United States afforded little scope for dramatic energy, so it is not surprising to find that when her husband died, after a few years of married life, the young widow had a vain struggle to maintain herself and three little ones, William Henry, Edgar, and Rosalie. Before her premature death, in December, 1811, the poet's mother had been reduced to the dire necessity of living on the charity of her neighbors.Edgar, the second child of David and Elizabeth Poe, was born at Boston, in the United States, on the 19th of January, 1809. Upon his mother's death at Richmond, Virginia, Edgar was adopted by a wealthy Scotch merchant, John Allan. Mr. Allan, who had married an American lady and settled in Virginia, was childless. He therefore took naturally to the brilliant and beautiful little boy, treated him as his son, and made him take his own surname. Edgar Allan, as he was now styled, after some elementary tuition in Richmond, was taken to England by his adopted parents, and, in 1816, placed at the Manor House School, Stoke-Newington.Under the Rev. Dr. Bransby, the future poet spent a lustrum of his life neither unprofitably nor, apparently, ungenially. Dr. Bransby, who is himself so quaintly portrayed in Poe's tale of William Wilson, described "Edgar Allan," by which name only he knew the lad, as "a quick and clever boy," who "would have been a very good boy had he not been spoilt by his parents," meaning, of course, the Allans. They "allowed him an extravagant amount of pocket-money, which enabled him to get into all manner of mischief. Still I liked the boy," added the tutor, "but, poor fellow, his parents spoiled him."Poe has described some aspects of his school days in his oft cited story of