| Complete Poems Contributor(s): Poe, Edgar Allen (Author), Mabbott, Thomas Ollive (Author) |
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ISBN: 0252069218 ISBN-13: 9780252069215 Publisher: University of Illinois Press OUR PRICE: $27.86 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2000 Annotation: Although best known for his tales, Edgar Allan Poe himself thirsted for fame primarily as a poet. This volume, assembled by the eminent Poe scholar Thomas Ollive Mabbott, is the single most authoritative edition of Poe's poems ever published: 101 poems and their variants, including such gems as "The Raven", "The Bells", and "Annabel Lee", as well as previously uncollected poems, fragments, verses he published in reviews he wrote, and poems attributed to him. In this exhaustive collection, Mabbott takes a fresh look at these texts, aiming "to present what [Poe] wrote, to explain why he wrote it, to tell what he meant when he wrote it (if that be in any way obscure), and to give a history of its publication". Containing the definitive poems as well as pertinent biographical background, full annotations, and a meticulous enumeration of successive texts and variants, Mabbott's edition stands as a firm foundation for Poe scholarship as well as for more general appreciation. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General |
| Dewey: 811.3 |
| LCCN: 00038639 |
| Physical Information: 1.58" H x 6.14" W x 9.13" (1.98 lbs) 672 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Contains 101 poems by Edgar Allan Poe, and their variants, including such gems as The Raven, The Bells, and Annabel Lee, as well as the uncollected poems, fragments, verses that he published in the reviews he wrote, and the poems attributed to him. |