As Poe's life sank further into poverty, misfortune, and misery, his verse more and more approached music: it is an art of hints, of fantasies, of unfinished suggestions.
This selection presents all his poetry, including the less well known poems written before he was twenty. With all their strangeness and mystery, their interest in the surreal and the macabre, the poems became a major influence on the work of many writers and artists of the twentieth century. The selected essays are illuminating in relation to Poe's attitudes to art as well as his life and times.
The most comprehensive paperback edition available, with introduction, notes, selected criticism and chronology of Poe's life and times.
