The poems of Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe (1809 – 1849) was an American author, poet, editor, and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story, and is generally considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre. He is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction. He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career. Born in Boston, he was the second child of two actors. His father abandoned the family in 1810, and his mother died the following year. Thus orphaned, the child was taken in by John and Frances Allan, of Richmond, Virginia. Although they never formally adopted him, Poe was with them well into young adulthood. Tension developed later as John Allan and Edgar repeatedly clashed over debts, including those incurred by gambling, and the cost of secondary education for the young man. Poe attended the University of Virginia for one semester but left due to lack of money. Poe quarreled with Allan over the funds for his education and enlisted in the Army in 1827 under an assumed name. It was at this time his publishing career began, albeit humbly, with an anonymous collection of poems, Tamerlane and Other Poems (1827), credited only to "a Bostonian". With the death of Frances Allan in 1829, Poe and Allan reached a temporary rapprochement. Later failing as an officer's cadet at West Point and declaring a firm wish to be a poet and writer, Poe parted ways with John Allan. In this book: Poems The Raven Annabel Lee. A Dream within a dream The sleeper Spirits of the Dead The Valley of Unrest To The River The Haunted Palace For Annie Eldorado Dream-Land The Conqueror Worm The City in the Sea The bells Alone Ulalume To Helen A Valentine An enigma To Frances.. Osgood Eulalie To Marie Louise (Shew) To Marie Louise (Shew 2) The city in the sea. Bridal Balad Leonore To one in the Paradise The Coliseum The haunted Palace Silence Dream-Land Hym To Zante Scenes from "Politian" An unpublished drama Al Aaraaf Dreams Evening Star Fairy-Land "The Happiest Day" The Lake Romance "Sancta Maria!" Serenade Silence Ulalume A Valentine The Valley of Unrest Sonnet -- To Science Song Spirits of the Dead Stanzas Tamerlane To... To..(2). To F... To F--s S. O--d To M... To Marie Louise (Shew) To M. L. S. To My Mother To Helen To Helen (2) To One Departed To One in Paradise To the River To Zante "In the Greenest of the Valleys" (From The Fall of the House of Usher) (To Isaac Lea) To Miss Louise Olivia Hunter To One in Paradise An Acrostic Deep in Earth The Divine Right of Kings Epigram for Wall Street Impromptu. To Kate Carol Israfel Lines on Ale A Pæan Imitation