Edgar Allan Poe: Poems and Poetics

edited by richard wilbur

Introduction

POEMS

Tamerlane

Song

Dreams

Spirits of the Dead

Evening Star

"Stanzas"

A Dream

"The Happiest Day"

The Lake--To ---

Sonnet-To Science

Al Aaraaf

Romance

To -- ("The bowers whereat")

To the River --

To -- ("I heed not that my earthly lot")

Fairy-Land

"Alone"

"To Isaac Lea"

Elizabeth

An Acrostic

To Helen ("Helen, thy beauty is to me")

Israfel

The Sleeper

The Valley of Unrest

The City in the Sea

Lenore

To One in Paradise

Hymn

Enigma ("The noblest name in Allegory's page")

Serenade

The Coliseum

To F--s S. O--d

To F--

Bridal Ballad

Sonnet-To Zante

The Haunted Palace

Sonnet-Silence

The Conqueror Worm

Dream-Land

Eulalie-A Song

The Raven

A Valentine to -- -- --

To Miss Louise Olivia Hunter

To M. L. S--

To -- -- -- ("Not long ago")

Ulalume-A Ballad

An Enigma ("'Seldom we find'")

The Bells

To Helen ("I saw thee once")

A Dream Within a Dream

For Annie

Eldorado

To My Mother

Annabel Lee

Scenes from "Politian"

SELECTED PROSE

Prefaces

Tamerlane and Other Poems

Poems (Letter to Mr. -- --)

The Raven and Other Poems

Writings on Poetics

from The Poetic Principle

from Review of Orion, by R. H. Horne

from Review of Alciphron by Thomas Moore

from A Chapter of Suggestions

from Marginalia

from Eureka: A Prose Poem

The Power of Words

Biographical Note

Note on the Texts

Notes

Index of Titles and First Lines