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The Raven (2e)Poems and Essays on PoetryEdgar Allan PoeEdited by C.H. SissonForeword by
Categories: 19th Century, American
Imprint: Fyfield Books Edition: 2nd Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: eBook (EPUB) 1e Needs ADE! (Pub. Jul 2012) 9781847776518 £9.95 £8.96 Paperback 2e (168 pages) (Pub. Mar 2012) 9781847771704 Out of Stock To use the EPUB version, you will need to have Adobe Digital Editions (ADE) installed on your device. You can find out more at https://www.adobe.com/uk/solutions/ebook/digital-editions.html. Please do not purchase this version if you do not have and are not prepared to install, Adobe Digital Editions.
‘Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the Nightly shore –
Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night’s Plutonian shore!’ Quoth the raven, ‘Nevermore.’
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) is the poet of the night world, of the inexplicable, the uncanny. His poems do not analyse, they do not explain: they exist with the intensity of hallucinations. In the breathtakingly seductive beauty of ‘To Helen’ – ‘Like those Nicéan barks of yore, / that gently o’er a perfumed sea...’, or the claustrophobic horror of ‘The Raven’, Poe offers haunting alternative realities, as strange – and strangely familiar – as our dreams and nightmares.
Yet Poe was more than a poet of American gothic. He was translated by Baudelaire and Mallarmé, becoming a key figure in French Symbolism; he was an influential critic. This edition contains all Poe’s poetry and his three most important essays. With an introduction by the poet C.H. Sisson, it is an indispensable collection of the work of one of the nineteenth century’s most compelling and original poets.
Table of Contents
Introduction Poems To Helen The Raven The Vallye of Unrest Bridal Ballad The Sleeper The Coliseum Lenore Catholic Hymn Israfel Dreamland Sonnet: To Zante The City in the Sea To One in Paradise Eulalie T F---s S. O---d To F--- Sonnet: Silence The Conqueror Worm The Haunted Palace Scenese from Politian Poems Written in Youth Sonnet to Science Al Aaraaf Tamerlane A Dream Romance Fairyland To--- To the River--- To Lake. To--- Song Later Poems A Dream within a Dream The Bells To Helen A Valentine An Enigma To--- --- To my Mother Eldorado To--- To M.L.S--- For Annie Ulalume Annabel Lee Essays on Poetry The Poetic Principle The Rationale of Verse The Philosphy of Composition
Praise for C.H. Sisson
`His poems move in service of the loved landscapes of England and France; they sing (and growl) in love of argument, in love of seeing through, in love of the firm descriptions of moral self-disgust; they move in love of the old lost life by which the new life is condemned.'
Donald Hall, New York Times Book Review 'I think he is worth a place on the short shelf reserved for the finest twentieth-century poets, with Eliot and Rilke and MacDiarmid.' Robert Nye, the Scotsman
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