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Edgar Allan Poe

Works

Titles given below in parenthesis signify an unnamed or unpublished work. The year following a work's title indicate the earliest known appearance of that work, not necessarily its first publication.

Collections

• The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe (1850–1856)

Poems

Collected poems

• Tamerlane and Other Poems (1827)
• Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems (1829)
• Poems (1831)
• The Raven and Other Poems (1845)

Individual poems

• (An Acrostic) (1829)
• Al Aaraaf (1829)
• Alone (1829)
• Annabel Lee (1849)
• The Bells (1848)
• Beloved Physician (1847)
• Bridal Ballad (1837)
• The City in the Sea (1831)
  • The Doomed City (early version)
• The Coliseum (1833)
• The Conqueror Worm (1843)
• Deep in Earth (1847)
• The Divine Right of Kings (1845)
• A Dream (1827)
• A Dream Within a Dream (1849)
• Dream-Land (1844)
• Dreams (1827)
• Eldorado (1849)
• Elizabeth (1829)
• Enigma (1833)
• An Enigma (1848)
• Epigram for Wall Street (1845)
• Eulalie (1843)
• Evangeline (1848)
• Evening Star (1827)
• Fairy-Land (1829)
• Fanny (1833)
• For Annie (1849)
• (The Happiest Day) (1827)
• The Haunted Palace (1839)
• Hymn (1833)
• Hymn to Aristogeiton and Harmodius (1827)
• Imitation (1827)
• Impromptu. To Kate Carol (1845)
• Israfel (1831)
• The Lake — To —— (1827)
• Lenore (1843)
• Lines on Ale (1848)
• O, Tempora! O, Mores! (1825?)
• A Pæan (1831)
• Poetry (1824)
• The Raven (1845)
• Romance (1829)
• Scenes from "Politian" (1835)
• Serenade (1833)
• Silence (1839)
• The Sleeper (1831)
• Song (1827)
• Sonnet — To Science (1829)
• Sonnet — To Zante (1837)
• Spirits of the Dead (1827)
• Spiritual Song (1836)
• Stanzas (1827)
• Stanzas (1845)
• Tamerlane (1827)
• To —— (1829)
• To —— (1833)
• To —— —— (1829)
• To F—— (1835)
• To F——s S. O——d (1833)
• To Helen (1831)
• To Helen (1848)
• (To Isaac Lea) (1829)
• To M—— (1828)
• To M. L. S—— (1847)
• To Margaret (1827)
• To Marie Louise (1847)
• To Miss Louise Olivia Hunter (1847)
• To My Mother (1849)
• (To Octavia) (1827)
• To One in Paradise (1833)
• To The River —— (1828)
• Ulalume (1847)
• A Valentine (1846)
• The Valley of Unrest (1831)
  • The Valley Nis (original version)

Short stories

Collected stories

• Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque (1840)
• The Prose Romances of Edgar A. Poe (1843)
• Tales (1845)

Individual stories

• "The Angel of the Odd" (1844)
• "The Assignation" (1834)
• "The Balloon-Hoax" (1844)
• "Berenice" (1835)
• "The Black Cat" (1843)
• "Bon-Bon" (1832)
• "The Business Man" (1840)
• "The Cask of Amontillado" (1846)
• "The Colloquy of Monos and Una" (1841)
• "The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion" (1839)
• "A Descent into the Maelström" (1841)
• "The Devil in the Belfry" (1839)
• "Diddling Considered as One of the Exact Sciences" (1843)
• "The Domain of Arnheim" (1846)
• "The Duc de L'Omelette" (1832)
• "Eleonora" (1841)
• "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar" (1845)
• "The Fall of the House of Usher" (1839)
• "Four Beasts in One" (1833)
• "The Gold-Bug" (1842)
• "Hop-Frog" (1849)
• "How to Write a Blackwood Article" (1838)
• "The Imp of the Perverse" (1845)
• "The Island of the Fay" (1841)
• "The Journal of Julius Rodman" (1840)
• "King Pest" (1835)
• "Landor's Cottage" (1849)
• "The Landscape Garden" (1842)
• "Ligeia" (1838)
• "(The Light-House)" (1849)
• "Lionizing" (1835)
• "The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq." (1844)
• "Loss of Breath" (1832)
• "The Man of the Crowd" (1840)
• "The Man That Was Used Up" (1839)
• "The Masque of the Red Death" (1842)
• "Mellonta Tauta" (1849)
• "Mesmeric Revelation" (1844)
• "Metzengerstein" (1832)
• "Morella" (1835)
• "MS. Found in a Bottle" (1833)
• "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1841)
• "The Mystery of Marie Rogêt" (1842)
• "Mystification" (1837)
• "Never Bet the Devil Your Head" (1841)
• "The Oblong Box" (1844)
• "The Oval Portrait" (1842)
• "The Pit and the Pendulum" (1842)
• "The Power of Words" (1845)
• "A Predicament" (1838)
• "The Premature Burial" (1844)
• "The Purloined Letter" (1844)
• "Shadow" (1835)
• "Silence" (1838)
• "Some Words with a Mummy" (1845)
• "The Spectacles" (1844)
• "The Sphinx" (1846)
• "The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether" (1844)
• "A Tale of Jerusalem" (1832)
• "A Tale of the Ragged Mountains" (1843)
• "The Tell-Tale Heart" (1843)
• "Thou Art the Man" (1844)
• "The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade" (1845)
• "Three Sundays in a Week" (1841)
• "Von Kempelen and His Discovery" (1849)
• "Why the Little Frenchman Wears His Hand in a Sling" (1839)
• "William Wilson" (1839)
• "X-ing a Paragrab" (1849)

Longer works

• The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (1837)
• "The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall" (1835)

Non-fiction

• "Maelzel's Chess-Player" (1836)
• "The Philosophy of Furniture" (1840)
• "A Few Words on Secret Writing" (1841)
• "Morning on the Wissahiccon" (1843)
• Marginalia (1844–1849)
• "Some Secrets of the Magazine Prison-House" (1845)
• "The Philosophy of Composition" (1846)
• The Literati of New York (1846)
• "The Rationale of Verse" (1847)
• Eureka: A Prose Poem (1848)
• "The Poetic Principle" (1850)

Criticism

• Criticism
• Review of Ballads and Other Poems
• Review of The Quacks of Helicon
• Review of The Old Curiosity Shop
• Review of Twice-Told Tales

Works about Poe

• A Fable for Critics (1848) by James Russell Lowell
• "The Raven" by Sarah Helen Whitman (1848)
• "To Edgar Allan Poe" by Sarah Helen Whitman (1848)
• Death of Edgar Allan Poe (October 9, 1849) by Rufus Wilmot Griswold (1849)
• Edgar Poe and his Critics (1860) by Sarah Helen Whitman
• "The Fall of Usher" by Thomas Holley Chivers
• “ Poe, Edgar Allan,” in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1910.
• “Poe, Edgar Allan,” Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), 1911.
• The Cambridge History of American Literature/Book II/Chapter XIV (1917-1921)
• "Edgar Allan Poe" by Tom McInnis (no date)
• The Letters Of Edgar Allan Poe (1948), by John Ward Ostrom

Sources

• The Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore
• Edgar Allan Poe - a centenary tribute (1910), by Edgar Allan Poe Memorial Association
• Edgar Allan Poe - how to know him (1921), by Charles Alphonso Smith

Works by this author published before January 1, 1923 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.