Raven

Poe Edgar Allan

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) is the poet of the night world, of the inexplicable, the uncanny. His poems do not analyse, they do not explain: they exist with the intensity of hallucinations. In the breathtakingly seductive beauty of "To Helen" – "Like those Nicean barks of yore, / that gently o'er a perfumed sea...", or the claustrophobic horror of "The Raven", Poe offers haunting alternative realities, as strange – and strangely familiar – as our dreams and nightmares.

Yet Poe was more than a poet of American gothic. He was translated by Baudelaire and Mallarme, becoming a key figure in French Symbolism; he was an influential critic. This edition contains all Poe's poetry and his three most important essays. With an introduction by the poet C. H. Sisson, it is an indispensable collection of the work of one of the nineteenth century's most compelling and original poets.

About the Author

Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, born in 1809, best known for his poetry and short stories. He is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States and American literature as a whole, and he was one of the country's earliest practitioners of the short story. Poe is generally considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre and is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction

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