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The Complete Poems of Edgar Allan PoeIllustrated and Decorated by W. Heath RobinsonAbout this Edition71 Poems including;Silence (1839)The Haunted Palace (1839)Eulalie (1843)Lenore (1843)The Conqueror Worm (1843)Lines on Joe Locke (1843)Dream-Land (1844)Epigram for Wall Street (1845)Impromptu. To Kate Carol (1845)The Divine Right of Kings (1845)The Raven (1845)This work is a completely new edition of Poe's poems. Unlike previous editions, the poems are presented in chronological order.A short note, derived from Wikipedia, has been added to each poem.Following the poems are three essays written by Poe on the subject of Poetry and composition.This edition also incorporates the illustrations and ornaments by W. Heath Robinson from "The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe", published by George Bell in 1900. This is not, however, intended as a facsimile of that edition. This is a completely new edition.Believing only a portion of my former volume to be worthy a second edition — that small portion I thought it as well to include in the present book as to republish by itself. I have, therefore, herein combined Al Aaraaf and Tamerlane with other Poems hitherto unprinted. Nor have I hesitated to insert from the "Minor Poems," now omitted, whole lines, and even passages, to the end that being placed in a fairer light, and the trash shaken from them in which they were imbedded, they may have some chance of being seen by posterity.It has been said, that a good critique on a poem may be written by one who is no poet himself. This, according to your idea and mine of poetry, I feel to be false — the less poetical the critic, the less just the critique, and the converse. On this account, and because there are but few B——s in the world, I would be as much ashamed of the world's good opinion as proud of your own. Another than yourself might here observe "Shakspeare is in possession of the world's good opinion, and yet Shakspeare is the greatest of poets.

From the beginning of his career, Edgar Allen Poe considered himself first and foremost a poet. In his prose works Poe is best remembered for his tales of psychological horror and suspense, but it is in his poetry that we find the true artist, struggling with the themes that were the most important to him and the closest to his bones. These themes included the loss of childhood innocence, alienation, despair, death, and loss of love. His greatest poems are expressions of one and sometimes several of these themes. Many of his poems, especially "Ulalume - A Ballad," "To Helen," "Annabel Lee," "The City in the Sea," "The Raven," "The Bells," and "The Haunted Palace" are among the most universally admired poems in English. D.H. Lawrence wrote that Poe "was an adventurer into the vaults and cellars and horrible underground passages of the human soul. He sounded the horror and the warning of his own doom." The Complete Poems is a testament to the strange genius of one of America's most original men of letters.