The Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe

This collection gathers the poetry of Edgar Allan Poe, the American master of the strange and the musical in verse. Here is The Raven, whose midnight visitor and mournful refrain made Poe famous overnight, along with the haunting elegies Annabel Lee and Ulalume, the chiming music of The Bells, and the dreams and lost loves that fill his shorter lyrics. Poe believed a poem should above all create a single, intense effect of beauty and melancholy, and his verse pursues that ideal with hypnotic rhythm and sound. Few poets have written lines so widely quoted and remembered. This free PDF and EPUB presents his collected poems.