The Raven and Other Favorite Poems - (Dover Thrift Editions) by Edgar Allan Poe (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Over 40 of the author's most memorable poems: The Bells, Ulalume, Israfel, To Helen, The Conqueror Worm, Eldorado, Annabel Lee, many more. Alphabetic lists of titles and first lines. A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>One of the most famous poems in the English language, The Raven first appeared in the January 29, 1845, edition of the <i>New York Evening Mirror.</i> It brought Edgar Allan Poe, then in his mid-30s and a well-known poet, critic, and short story writer, his first taste of celebrity on a grand scale. The Raven remains Poe's best-known work, yet it is only one of a dazzling series of poems and stories that won him an enduring place in world literature.<br>This volume contains The Raven and 40 others of Edgar Allan Poe's most memorable poems, among them The Bells, Ulalume, Israfel, To Helen, The Conqueror Worm, Eldorado, and Annabel Lee. Together they reveal the extraordinary spectrum of Poe's personality -- his idealism; his visionary qualities; his responsiveness to beauty, to love, and to women; and his susceptibility to the eerie and the morbid. They reveal, too, his virtuoso command of poetic language, rhythms, and figures of speech -- command that would make his one of the most distinctive voices in all of poetry.A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>One of the most famous poems in the English language, The Raven first appeared in the January 29, 1845, edition of the <i>New York Evening Mirror.</i> It brought Edgar Allan Poe, then in his mid-30s and a well-known poet, critic, and short story writer, his first taste of celebrity on a grand scale. The Raven remains Poe's best-known work, yet it is only one of a dazzling series of poems and stories that won him an enduring place in world literature.<br>This volume contains The Raven and 40 others of Edgar Allan Poe's most memorable poems, among them The Bells, Ulalume, Israfel, To Helen, The Conqueror Worm, Eldorado, and Annabel Lee. Together they reveal the extraordinary spectrum of Poe's personality--his idealism; his visionary qualities; his responsiveness to beauty, to love, and to women; and his susceptibility to the eerie and the morbid.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>The father of the detective novel and an innovator in the genre of science fiction, Edgar Allan Poe (1809-49) made his living as America's first great literary critic. Today he is best remembered for his short stories and poems, haunting works of horror and mystery that remain popular around the world.
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