Collected Tales, Poems, and Other Writings of Edgar Allan Poe [26 stories, 13 poems, etc.]

Description

Part 1: Tales --
1. Ms. Found in a Bottle (1833) --
Berenice
3. Morella (1835) --
4. Ligeia (1838) --
5. How to Write a Blackwood Article/A Predicament (1838) --
6. The Man That Was Used Up (1839) --
Fall of the House of Usher
William Wilson
9. The Man of the Crowd (1840) --
10. The Murders into the Rue Morgue (1841) --
Descent into the Maelstrom
Masque of the Red Death
Pit and the Pendulum
Tell-tale Heart
15. The Gold-Bug (1843) --
Black Cat
Premature Burial
Purloined Letter
19. The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether (1844) --
20. The Balloon-Hoax (1844) --
21. The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq. (1844) --
22. Some Words with a Mummy (1845) --
Imp of the Perverse
Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
Cask of Amontillado
26. Hop-Frog (1849) --

Part 2: Poems --
27. Sonnet-To Science --
28. "Alone" --
29. To Helen --
30. Israfel --
31. The Sleeper --
32. The City in the Sea --
33. The Haunted Palace --
34. The Conqueror Worm --
35. Dream-Land --
Raven
37. Ulalume-A Ballad --
38. The Bells --
Annabel Lee

Part 3: Letters, Prefaces, Critical Writings --
40. Letter to John Allan 12/22/28 [capturing their troubled relationship] --
41. Letter to T. W. White 4/30/35 [defense of grotesque imagery in Berenice] --
42. Letter to Maria and Virginia Clemm 8/29/35 [Poe's devotion to Virginia] --
43. Letter to B __ [poetry is about pleasure, not truth] SLM 1836 --
44. Letter to John P. Kennedy [tales are half-banter, half-satire] --
45. Letter to Philip P. Cooke 9/21/39 [Poe explicates Ligeia] --
46. Letter to Frederick Thomas (May 4 1845): [wrote The Raven for popularity] --
47. Letter to Philip P. Cooke 8/9/46: [Poe on his tales of ratiocination] --
48. Letter to George W. Eveleth [Poe on a flaw in The Raven] --
49. Letter to George W. Eveleth 1/4/48 [Poe explains his drinking] --
50. Prospectus of The Penn Magazine --
51. Review of Edward Lytton Bulwer [Poe on plot] Graham's 1841 --
52. Review of Longfellow [Poe criticizes didacticism] 1842 --
53. Review of Guy Fawkes, by William Harrison Ainsworth [Poe's tomahawk] Nov 1841 --
54. Review of Twice-Told Tales [Poe on superiority of tale to novel] Apr 1842 --
55. From Review of Twice-Told Tales [Poe on unity of effect May 1842] --
56. Preface to The Raven and Other Poems [poetry not a purpose, but a passion] --
57. The Philosophy of Composition --
58. The Poetic Principle --
59. Some Secrets of the Magazine Prison-House --

Part 4: Related Literary Works --
The Confessions of Nat Turner (Thomas Gray) --
Hymn to the Night (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) --
A Psalm of Life (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) --
The Cross of Snow (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) --
The Birth Mark (Nathaniel Hawthorne) --
Wakefield (Nathaniel Hawthorne) --
Young Goodman Brown (Nathaniel Hawthorne) --
The Quaker City [excerpt](George Lippard) --
The Great Lawsuit [excerpt](Margaret Fuller) --
The Poet (Ralph Waldo Emerson) --
Unseen Spirits (Nathaniel Parker Willis) --
The Madhouse of Palermo (Nathaniel Parker Willis) --
Out of the Cradle, Endlessly Rocking (Walt Whitman) --
1849 Obituary of Poe (Rufus Griswold) --
I Felt a Funeral, In My Brain (Emily Dickinson) --
One Need Not Be A Chamber --
To Be Haunted (Emily Dickinson) --
After Great Pain, A Formal Feeling Comes (Emily Dickinson) --

Part 5: Reader's Guide --
Contexts --
Style --
Contemporary Reception --
Afterlife and Influence --
Scholarship and Interpretation --
Sources for Further Study --
Index.