Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Worksby Edgar Allan PoeThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and withalmost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away orre-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License includedwith this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.netTitle: Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical WorksAuthor: Edgar Allan PoeRelease Date: November 10, 2003 [EBook #10031]Language: EnglishCharacter set encoding: ISO-8859-1*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS ***Produced by Clytie Siddall, Charles Aldarondo, Keren Vergonand the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE BY JOHN H. INGRAMPREFACE.In placing before the public this collection of Edgar Poe's poeticalworks, it is requisite to point out in what respects it differs from,and is superior to, the numerous collections which have preceded it.Until recently, all editions, whether American or English, of Poe'spoems have been 'verbatim' reprints of the first posthumous collection,published at New York in 1850.In 1874 I began drawing attention to the fact that unknown andunreprinted poetry by Edgar Poe was in existence. Most, if not all, ofthe specimens issued in my articles have since ...