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And much of Madness and more of Sin And Horror the Soul of the Plot
The lines from 'Ligeia' epitomize the familiar Poe, the arch-priest of Gothic horror, author of 'The Masque of the Red Death' and 'The Pit and the Pendulum'. That Poe, unquestioned master of 'the Grotesque and Arabesque', is fully represented here, but the volume also includes generous selections from his poetry and critical writings. Together they amount to a portrait of a complex personality, that of a conscious aesthete, the most exotic of American writers, who was at the same time keenly engaged in an astonishing variety of interests. Nor are the 'Grotesque' tales the simple manipulations of terror that they seem; David Galloway's introduction reveals their author as a profoundly serious writer, whose investigations of extreme states of conscious- ness have a particular relevance for our time.
The cover shows a detail from 'Oiseau' by Odilon Redon (photo Jean-Pierre Leloir, Snark International)
The portrait of Edgar Allan Poe inside the front cover is by Ismael Gentz
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Laments, Narrative poetry, Poetry, Grief, American poetry, American Children's poetry, Love poetry, Juvenile poetry, busts, supernatural, talking birds, ravens, American fantasy poetry, Young adult nonfiction, Fantasy poetry, Gothic poetry, Poetry (poetic works by one author), Children's poetry, Death, short stories, aristocracy, American Horror tales, American literature, Children's fiction, Classic Literature, Crime, Crime fiction, Detective and mystery stories, Fiction, first-person narrative, Gothic fiction, Homicide, Horror, Horror fiction, Horror stories, Horror tales, Hyperesthesia, Juvenile fiction, Murder, American fiction, American Short stories, fear, pendulums, Spanish Inquisition, abbeys, daggers, Hematidrosis, Juvenile audience, masquerade balls, nobility, plagues, shrouds, burial vaults, catalepsy, dragons, hermitages, heroic romances, hysteria, knights, maces, psychogenic death, tarns, Mesmerism, suspense, hoaxes, narration, pseudoscience, Hypnagogia, animal magnetism, hypnotism, tuberculosis, embedded narrative, mountaineering, whirlpools, vortex, Ratiocination, Revenge, cats, short story, unreliable narrators, self-hatred, gallows, Mystery and detective stories, monograms, American writers, American Fantasy literature, Collected works (single author, multi-form), Books, Reviews, Fiction, short stories (single author)People
Annabel Lee, Lenore, Pallas, William Wilson, Father Time, Prince Prospero, Roderick Usher, Madeline Usher, Ethelred, Ernest Valdemar, Eleonora, Ermengarde, Jonas Danilssønn Ramus, Montresor, Fortunato, Luchresi, Lady Fortunato, C. Auguste Dupin, Minister D—, Prosper Jolyot de CrébillonShowing 7 featured editions. View all 7 editions?
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Cover title: Selected writings.
1st ed.: 1967.
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17 poems:
Al Aaraaf
Annabel Lee
Bells
City in the Sea
Eldorado
For Annie
Israfel
Lenore
Raven
Romance
Sonnet — to Science
Stanzas
The Sleeper
To Helen
Ulalume
Valentine
Valley of Unrest
19 stories:
Manuscript Found in a Bottle
Ligeia
The Man that was Used Up
Fall of the House of Usher
William Wilson
The Man of the Crowd
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
Descent into the Maelstrom
Eleonora
The Oval Portrait
Masque of the Red Death
Pit and the Pendulum
Tell-tale Heart
The Gold-Bug
Black Cat
Purloined Letter
Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
Cask of Amontillado
Hop-Frog
Essays/reviews:
Letter to B—
Georgia Scenes
The Drake-Halleck Review (excerpts)
Watkins Tottle
The Philosophy of Furniture
Wyandotté
Music
Time and Space
TwiceT01d Tales
The American Drama (excerpts)
Hazlitt
The Philosophy of Composition
Song-Writing
On Imagination
The Veil of the soul
The Poetic Principle (excerpts)
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