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Main article: Edgar Allan Poe

The works of American author Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) include many poems, short stories, and one novel. His fiction spans multiple genres, including horror fiction, adventure, science fiction, and detective fiction, a genre he is credited with inventing.[1] These works are generally considered part of the Dark romanticism movement, a literary reaction to Transcendentalism.[2] Poe's writing reflects his literary theories: he disagreed with didacticism[3] and allegory.[4] Meaning in literature, he said in his criticism, should be an undercurrent just beneath the surface; works whose meanings are too obvious cease to be art.[5] Poe pursued originality in his works, and disliked proverbs.[6] He often included elements of popular pseudosciences such as phrenology[7] and physiognomy.[8] His most recurring themes deal with questions of death, including its physical signs, the effects of decomposition, concerns of premature burial, the reanimation of the dead, and mourning.[9] Though known as a masterful practitioner of Gothic fiction, Poe did not invent the genre; he was following a long-standing popular tradition.[10]

Poe's literary career began in 1827 with the release of 50 copies of Tamerlane and Other Poems credited only to "a Bostonian", a collection of early poems which received virtually no attention.[11] In December 1829, Poe released Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems in Baltimore[12] before delving into short stories for the first time with "Metzengerstein" in 1832.[13] His most successful and most widely-read prose during his lifetime was "The Gold-Bug"[14] which earned him a $100 prize, the most money he received for a single work.[15] One of his most important works, "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", was published in 1841 and is today considered the first modern detective story.[16] Poe called it a "tale of ratiocination".[1] Poe became a household name with the publication of "The Raven" in 1845,[17] though it was not a financial success.[18] The publishing industry at the time was a difficult career choice and much of Poe's work was written using themes specifically catered for mass market tastes.[19]

Contents

[edit] Poetry

Main article: Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
Title
Date
First published in
Notes
"Poetry" 1824 Never published in Poe's lifetime [20]
"O, Tempora! O, Mores!" 1825 Never published during Poe's lifetime Not authenticated as by Poe[21]
"Tamerlane" July 1827 Tamerlane and Other Poems [22]
"Song" July 1827 Tamerlane and Other Poems [23]
"Imitation" July 1827 Tamerlane and Other Poems [23]
"A Dream" July 1827 Tamerlane and Other Poems [23]
"The Lake" July 1827 Tamerlane and Other Poems [22]
"Spirits of the Dead" July 1827 Tamerlane and Other Poems [22]
"Evening Star" July 1827 Tamerlane and Other Poems [22]
"Dreams" July 1827 Tamerlane and Other Poems [24]
"Stanzas" July 1827 Tamerlane and Other Poems [25]
"The Happiest Day" September 15, 1827 The North American [23]
"To Margaret" circa 1827 Never published during Poe's lifetime [26]
"Alone" 1829 Not published in Poe's lifetime [27]
"To Isaac Lea" circa 1829 Never published in Poe's lifetime [28]
"To The River —— " 1829 Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems [29]
"Romance" 1829 Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems [23]
"Fairy-Land" 1829 Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems [23]
"To Science" 1829 Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems [30]
"Al Aaraaf" 1829 Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems [23]
"An Acrostic" 1829 Never published during Poe's lifetime [23]
"Elizabeth" 1829 Never published during Poe's lifetime [31]
"To Helen" 1831 Poems by Edgar A. Poe [31]
"A Paean" 1831 Poems by Edgar A. Poe [32]
"The Sleeper" 1831 Poems by Edgar A. Poe [32]
"The City in the Sea" 1831 Poems by Edgar A. Poe [32]
"The Valley of Unrest" 1831 Poems by Edgar A. Poe [32]
"Israfel" 1831 Poems by Edgar A. Poe [32]
"Enigma" February 2, 1833 Baltimore Saturday Visiter [33]
"Fanny" May 18, 1833 Baltimore Saturday Visiter [34]
"The Coliseum" October 26, 1833 Baltimore Saturday Visiter [35]
"Serenade" April 20, 1833 Baltimore Saturday Visiter [36]
"To One in Paradise" January 1834 Godey's Lady's Book [29]
"Hymn" April 1835 Southern Literary Messenger [37]
"May Queen Ode" circa 1836 Never published in Poe's lifetime [38]


"Spiritual Song" 1836 Never published during Poe's lifetime [39]
"Latin Hymn" March 1836 Southern Literary Messenger [40]
"Bridal Ballad" January 1837 Southern Literary Messenger Originally published as "Ballad"[41]
"To Zante" January 1837 Southern Literary Messenger [30]
"The Haunted Palace" April 1839 American Museum [42]
"Silence–A Sonnet" January 4, 1840 Saturday Courier [43]
"Lines on Joe Locke" February 28, 1843 Saturday Museum [44]
"The Conqueror Worm" January 1843 Graham's Magazine [45]
"Lenore" February 1843 The Pioneer [46]
"A Campaign Song" 1844 Never published during Poe's lifetime [47]
"Impromptu. To Kate Carol" April 26, 1845 Broadway Journal [48]
"To Frances" April 1845 Broadway Journal [31]
"Dream-Land" June 1844 Graham's Magazine [45]
"Eulalie" July 1845 American Review: A Whig Journal [49]
"Epigram for Wall Street" January 23, 1845 Evening Mirror [50]
"The Raven" January 29, 1845 Evening Mirror [51]
"The Divine Right of Kings" October 1845 Graham's Magazine [52]
"A Valentine" February 21, 1846 Evening Mirror Originally published as "To Her Whose Name Is Written Below"[53]
"Beloved Physician" 1847 Never published during Poe's lifetime Incomplete[54]
"Deep in Earth" 1847 Never published during Poe's lifetime Incomplete[55]
"To Marie Louise" March 13, 1847 The Home Journal [31]
"Ulalume" December 1847 American Whig Review [56]
"Lines on Ale" 1848 Never published during Poe's lifetime [57]
"An Enigma" March 1848 Union Magazine of Literature and Art [56]
"To Helen" November 1848 Sartain's Union Magazine [31]
"A Dream Within A Dream" March 31, 1849 Flag of Our Union [56]
"Eldorado" April 21, 1849 Flag of Our Union [58]
"For Annie" April 28, 1849 Flag of Our Union [56]
"To My Mother" July 7, 1849 Flag of Our Union [29]
"Annabel Lee" October 9, 1849 New York Daily Tribune Sold before Poe's death but published posthumously[59]
"The Bells" November 1849 Sartain's Union Magazine Sold before Poe's death but published posthumously[56]

[edit] Tales

Title
Publication date
First published in
Genre
Notes
"Metzengerstein" January 14, 1832 Philadelphia Saturday Courier Horror / Satire First published anonymously with the subtitle "A Tale in Imitation of the German"[13]
"The Duc De L'Omelette" March 3, 1832 Philadelphia Saturday Courier Humor Originally "The Duke of l'Omelette"[60]
"A Tale of Jerusalem" June 9, 1832 Philadelphia Saturday Courier Humor [61]
"Loss of Breath" November 10, 1832 Philadelphia Saturday Courier Humor Originally "A Decided Loss"[61]
"Bon-Bon" December 1, 1832 Philadelphia Saturday Courier Humor Originally "The Bargain Lost"[61]
"MS. Found in a Bottle" October 19, 1833 Baltimore Saturday Visiter Adventure [62]
"The Assignation" January 1834 Godey's Lady's Book Horror Originally "The Visionary", published anonymously[63]
"Berenice" March 1835 Southern Literary Messenger Horror [37]
"Morella" April 1835 Southern Literary Messenger Horror [37]
"Lionizing" May 1835 Southern Literary Messenger Satire Subtitle: "A Tale"[37]
"The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall" June 1835 Southern Literary Messenger Adventure [37]
"King Pest" September 1835 Southern Literary Messenger Horror / Humor Originally "King Pest the First", published anonymously[64]
"Shadow - A Parable" September 1835 Southern Literary Messenger Horror Published anonymously[64]
"Four Beasts in One - The Homo-Cameleopard" March 1836 Southern Literary Messenger Humor Originally "Epimanes"[65]
"Mystification" June 1837 American Monthly Magazine Humor Originally "Von Jung, the Mystific"[66]
"Silence - A Fable" 1838 Baltimore Book Humor Originally "Siope - A Fable"[67]
"Ligeia" September 1838 Baltimore American Museum Horror Republished in the February 15, 1845 issue of the New York World, included the poem "The Conqueror Worm" as Ligeia's dying words[68]
"How to Write A Blackwood Article" November 1838 Baltimore American Museum Parody An introduction to "A Predicament"[69]
"A Predicament" November 1838 Baltimore American Museum Parody Companion to "How to Write A Blackwood Article," originally "The Scythe of Time"[69]
"The Devil in the Belfry" May 18, 1839 Saturday Chronicle and Mirror of the Times Humor / Satire [70]
"The Man That Was Used Up" August 1839 Burton's Gentleman's Magazine Satire [71]
"The Fall of the House of Usher" September 1839 Burton's Gentleman's Magazine Horror [72]
"William Wilson" October 1839 The Gift: A Christmas and New Year's Present for 1840 Horror [73]
"The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion" December 1839 Burton's Gentleman's Magazine Science fiction [73]
"Why the Little Frenchman Wears His Hand in a Sling" 1840 Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque Humor [74]
"The Business Man" February 1840 Burton's Gentleman's Magazine Humor Originally "Peter Pendulum" [73]
"The Man of the Crowd" December 1840 Graham's Magazine Horror [75]
"The Murders in the Rue Morgue" April 1841 Graham's Magazine Detective fiction [76]
"A Descent into the Maelström" April 1841 Graham's Magazine Adventure [74]
"The Island of the Fay" June 1841 Graham's Magazine Fantasy [74]
"The Colloquy of Monos and Una" August 1841 Graham's Magazine Science fiction [77]
"Never Bet the Devil Your Head" September 1841 Graham's Magazine Satire Subtitled "A Tale with a Moral"[78]
"Eleonora" Fall 1841 The Gift for 1842 Romance [79]
"Three Sundays in a Week" November 27, 1841 Saturday Evening Post Humor Originally "A Succession of Sundays"[80]
"The Oval Portrait" April 1842 Graham's Magazine Horror Originally "Life in Death"[81]
"The Masque of the Red Death" May 1842 Graham's Magazine Horror Originally "The Mask of the Red Death"[82]
"The Landscape Garden" October 1842 Snowden's Ladies' Companion Sketch Later incorporated into "The Domain of Arnheim"[83]
"The Mystery of Marie Roget" November 1842, December 1842, February 1843 (serialized)[84] Snowden's Ladies' Companion Detective fiction Originally subtitled "A Sequel to 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue'"[85]
"The Pit and the Pendulum" 1842–1843 The Gift: A Christmas and New Year's Present Horror [86]
"The Tell-Tale Heart" January 1843 The Pioneer Horror [87]
"The Gold-Bug" June 1843 Dollar Newspaper Adventure [88]
"The Black Cat" August 19, 1843 United States Saturday Post Horror [89]
"Diddling" October 14, 1843 Philadelphia Saturday Courier Parody Originally "Raising the Wind; or, Diddling Considered as One of the Exact Sciences"[90]
"The Spectacles" March 27, 1844 Dollar Newspaper Humor [91]
"A Tale of the Ragged Mountains" April 1844 Godey's Lady's Book Science fiction, Adventure [91]
"The Premature Burial" July 31, 1844 Dollar Newspaper Horror [92]
"Mesmeric Revelation" August 1844 Columbian Magazine Science fiction [93]
"The Oblong Box" September 1844 Godey's Lady's Book Horror [94]
"The Angel of the Odd" October 1844 Columbian Magazine Humor Subtitled "An Extravaganza"[95]
"Thou Art the Man" November 1844 Godey's Lady's Book Detective fiction / Satire [94]
"The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq." December 1844 Southern Literary Messenger Humor [94]
"The Purloined Letter" 1844–1845 The Gift: A Christmas and New Year's Present Detective fiction [96]
"The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade" February 1845 Godey's Lady's Book Humor Meant as a sequel to One Thousand and One Nights[97]
"Some Words with a Mummy" April 1845 American Review: A Whig Journal Satire [98]
"The Power of Words" June 1845 Democratic Review Science fiction [99]
"The Imp of the Perverse" July 1845 Graham's Magazine Horror [100]
"The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether" November 1845 Graham's Magazine Humor [101]
"The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar" December 1845 The American Review Horror / Science fiction / Hoax Originally "The Facts of M. Valdemar's Case"[102]
"The Sphinx" January 1846 Arthur's Ladies Magazine Satire [103]
"The Cask of Amontillado" November 1846 Godey's Lady's Book Horror [104]
"The Domain of Arnheim" March 1847 Columbian Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine Sketch Expansion of previous story "The Landscape Garden"[105]
"Mellonta Tauta" February 1849 Flag of Our Union Science fiction / Hoax [106]
"Hop-Frog" March 17, 1849 Flag of Our Union Horror Subtitled "Or, The Eight Chained Ourang-Outang"[56]
"Von Kempelen and His Discovery" April 14, 1849 Flag of Our Union Hoax [56]
"X-ing a Paragrab" May 12, 1849 Flag of Our Union Humor [107]
"Landor's Cottage" June 9, 1849 Flag of Our Union Sketch Originally "Landor's Cottage: A Pendant to 'The Domain of Arnheim'"[108]

[edit] Other works

[edit] Essays

Eureka: A Prose Poem (1848)
Eureka: A Prose Poem (1848)

[edit] Novels

[edit] Plays

  • Politian (Two installments, December 1835–January 1836 – Southern Literary Messenger) — Incomplete

[edit] Other

[edit] Collections

Tamerlane and Other Poems (1827)
Tamerlane and Other Poems (1827)

Please note that this list of collections refers only to those printed during Poe's lifetime with his permission. Modern anthologies are not included.

[edit] See also

[edit] References

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ a b Silverman, 171
  2. ^ Koster, Donald N. "Influences of Transcendentalism on American Life and Literature." Literary Movements for Students Vol. 1. David Galens, ed. Detroit: Thompson Gale, 2002: p. 336.
  3. ^ Kagle, Steven E. "The Corpse Within Us" as collected in Poe and His Times: The Artist and His Milieu, edited by Benjamin Franklin Fisher IV. Baltimore: The Edgar Allan Poe Society, Inc., 1990. p. 104 ISBN 0961644923
  4. ^ Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Tale-Writing. Retrieved on 2008-03-28.
  5. ^ Wilbur, Richard. "The House of Poe," collected in Poe: A Collection of Critical Essays, edited by Robert Regan. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1967. p. 99
  6. ^ Hayes, K.J. (2002) "Visual Culture and the Word in Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Man of the Crowd'," Nineteenth-Century Literature, Vol. 56, No. 4. p. 445–465
  7. ^ Edward Hungerford. "Poe and Phrenology," American Literature 1(1930): 209–231.
  8. ^ Erik Grayson. "Weird Science, Weirder Unity: Phrenology and Physiognomy in Edgar Allan Poe" Mode 1 (2005): 56–77.
  9. ^ Kennedy, J. Gerald. Poe, Death, and the Life of Writing. Yale University Press, 1987. p3. ISBN 0300037732
  10. ^ Fisher, Benjamin Franklin. "Poe and the Gothic Tradition". The Cambridge Companion to Edgar Allan Poe: 72. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 
  11. ^ Meyers, 33–34
  12. ^ Sova, 5
  13. ^ a b Silverman, 88
  14. ^ Sova, 97
  15. ^ Hoffman, 189
  16. ^ Meyers, 123
  17. ^ Hoffman, 80
  18. ^ Krutch, Joseph Wood. Edgar Allan Poe: A Study in Genius. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1926. p. 155
  19. ^ Whalen, Terence. "Poe and the American Publishing Industry", as collected in A Historical Guide to Edgar Allan Poe. Oxford University Press, 2001. p. 67. ISBN 0195121503
  20. ^ Edgar Allan Poe — 'Poetry'" at Edgar Allan Poe Society online
  21. ^ Hubbell, Jay B. "'O, Tempora! O, Mores!' A Juvenile Poem by Edgar Allan Poe", Studies in the Humanities. University of Colorado Studies. Series B, vol. 2, no. 4. p. 314-321
  22. ^ a b c d Sova, 233
  23. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Sova, 271
  24. ^ Edgar Allan Poe. 'Dreams'. Edgar Allan Poe Society online. Retrieved on 2008-03-29.
  25. ^ Foye, 22–23
  26. ^ Edgar Allan Poe. 'To Margaret'. Edgar Allan Poe Society online. Retrieved on 2008-03-29.
  27. ^ Sova, 8
  28. ^ Edgar Allan Poe. 'To Isaac Lea'. Edgar Allan Poe Society online. Retrieved on 2008-03-29.
  29. ^ a b c Sova, 240
  30. ^ a b Sova, 225
  31. ^ a b c d e Sova, 239
  32. ^ a b c d e Sova, 194
  33. ^ Edgar Allan Poe. 'Enigma'. Edgar Allan Poe Society online. Retrieved on 2008-03-29.
  34. ^ Edgar Allan Poe. 'Fanny'. Edgar Allan Poe Society online. Retrieved on 2008-03-29.
  35. ^ Edgar Allan Poe. 'The Colisuem'. Edgar Allan Poe Society online. Retrieved on 2008-03-29.
  36. ^ Edgar Allan Poe. 'Serenade'. Edgar Allan Poe Society online. Retrieved on 2008-03-29.
  37. ^ a b c d e Quinn, 208
  38. ^ Edgar Allan Poe. 'May Queen Ode'. Edgar Allan Poe Society online. Retrieved on 2008-03-29.
  39. ^ Edgar Allan Poe. 'Spiritual Song'. Edgar Allan Poe Society online. Retrieved on 2008-03-29.
  40. ^ Edgar Allan Poe. 'Spiritual Song'. Edgar Allan Poe Society online. Retrieved on 2008-03-29.
  41. ^ Sova, 34
  42. ^ Silverman, 138
  43. ^ Sova, 220
  44. ^ Edgar Allan Poe. 'Lines on Joe Locke'. Edgar Allan Poe Society online. Retrieved on 2008-03-29.
  45. ^ a b Sova, 282
  46. ^ Silverman, 201
  47. ^ Edgar Allan Poe. 'A Campaign Song'. Edgar Allan Poe Society online. Retrieved on 2008-03-29.
  48. ^ Edgar Allan Poe. 'Impromptu – To Kate Carol'. Edgar Allan Poe Society online. Retrieved on 2008-03-29.
  49. ^ Quinn, 480
  50. ^ Edgar Allan Poe. 'Epigram for Wall Street'. Edgar Allan Poe Society online. Retrieved on 2008-03-29.
  51. ^ Hoffman, 79
  52. ^ Edgar Allan Poe. 'The Divine Right of Kings'. Edgar Allan Poe Society online. Retrieved on 2008-03-29.
  53. ^ Sova, 249
  54. ^ Meyers, 207
  55. ^ Foye, 29
  56. ^ a b c d e f g h i Sova, 285
  57. ^ Foye, 30
  58. ^ Quinn, 605
  59. ^ Meyers, 244
  60. ^ Sova, 73
  61. ^ a b c Quinn, 192
  62. ^ Sova, 162
  63. ^ Silverman, 93
  64. ^ a b Quinn, 230
  65. ^ Sova, 90
  66. ^ Sova, 165
  67. ^ Sova, 219
  68. ^ Sova, 134
  69. ^ a b c Sova, 200
  70. ^ Sova, 68
  71. ^ Quinn, 283
  72. ^ Quinn, 284
  73. ^ a b c Sova, 279
  74. ^ a b c Sova, 280
  75. ^ Quinn, 309
  76. ^ Meyers, 123
  77. ^ Sova, 54
  78. ^ Quin, 325
  79. ^ Quinn, 328–329
  80. ^ Quinn, 330
  81. ^ Quinn, 330–331
  82. ^ Quinn, 331
  83. ^ Sova, 129
  84. ^ Sova, 165
  85. ^ Meyers, 134
  86. ^ Sova, 188
  87. ^ Meyers, 137
  88. ^ Meyers, 135–136
  89. ^ Sova, 28
  90. ^ a b Sova, 79
  91. ^ a b Quinn, 400
  92. ^ Quinn, 418
  93. ^ Sova, 154
  94. ^ a b c Quinn, 422
  95. ^ Sova, 11
  96. ^ Sova, 204
  97. ^ Sova, 237
  98. ^ Silverman, 294
  99. ^ Sova, 199
  100. ^ Silverman, 263
  101. ^ Quinn, 469
  102. ^ Quinn, 470
  103. ^ Quinn, 499
  104. ^ Meyers, 201
  105. ^ Sova, 71
  106. ^ Meyers, 241
  107. ^ Sova, 261
  108. ^ Sova, 128
  109. ^ Sova, 276
  110. ^ Sova, 186
  111. ^ Rosenheim, Shawn James. The Cryptographic Imagination: Secret Writing from Edgar Poe to the Internet. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. ISBN 9780801853326. p. 19
  112. ^ Sova, 82
  113. ^ Silverman, 395
  114. ^ Meyers, 95-96
  115. ^ Sova, 119
  116. ^ Quinn, 410
  117. ^ Edgar Allan Poe. 'The Light-House'. Edgar Allan Poe Society online. Retrieved on 2008-03-29.
  118. ^ Silverman, 68
  119. ^ Silverman, 153
  120. ^ Ostram, John Ward. "Poe's Literary Labors and Rewards" in Myths and Reality: The Mysterious Mr. Poe. Baltimore: The Edgar Allan Poe Society, 1987. p. 40
  121. ^ Sova, 232
  122. ^ Silverman, 299

[edit] Sources

  • Foye (editor) (1980). The Unknown Poe: An Anthology of Fugitive Writings by Edgar Allan Poe. San Francisco: City Lights. ISBN 0872861104. 
  • Hoffman, Daniel (1998). Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. ISBN 0807123218. 
  • Meyers, Jeffrey (1992). Edgar Allan Poe: His Life and Legacy, Paperback ed., New York: Cooper Square Press. ISBN 0815410387. 
  • Quinn, Arthur Hobson (1998). Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical Biography, Paperback ed., Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0801857309. 
  • Silverman, Kenneth (1991). Edgar A. Poe: Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance, Paperback ed., New York: Harper Perennial, 171. ISBN 0060923318. 
  • Sova, Dawn B. (2001). Edgar Allan Poe: A to Z. New York: Checkmark Books. ISBN 081604161X. 

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