Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe is a famous American author, poet and editor known for his dark and morbid themes. Among his most famous works are The Raven and 'The Tell-tale Heart.

His short story, "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is considered the first detective story.

The Gold-Bug is an imaginative tale that gives an example of elementary cryptanalysis (code-breaking).

Life

Poe was born in Boston in 1809, and was raised in Richmond, Virginia after his mother's death in 1811. He was educated in England and in Virginia.

In 1836, he married his 13 year old cousin, in Baltimore. Poe was an alcoholic, and drank increasingly after his wife's death in 1847. In 1849, he was found on the streets in Baltimore and died soon after. The cause of Poe's death remains unknown.

Works

Poetry

• O, Tempora! O, Mores! (1825)
• Song (1827)
• Imitation (1827)
• Spirits of the Dead (1827)
• A Dream (1827)
• Stanzas (1827)
• Tamerlane (1827)
• The Lake (1827)
• Evening Star (1827)
• A Dream (1827)
• To Margaret (1827)
• The Happiest Day (1827)
• To The River (1828)
• Romance (1829)
• Fairy-Land (1829)
• To Science (1829)
• To Isaac Lea (1829)
• Al Aaraaf (1829)
• An Acrostic (1829)
• Elizabeth (1829)
• To Helen (1831)
• A Paean (1831)
• The Sleeper (1831)
• The City in the Sea (1831)
• The Valley of Unrest (1831)
• Israfel (1831)
• The Coliseum (1833)
• Enigma (1833)
• Fanny (1833)
• Serenade (1833)
• Song of Triumph from Epimanes (1833)
• Latin Hymn (1833)
• To One in Paradise (1833)
• Hymn (1835)
• Politician (1835)
• May Queen Ode (1836)
• Spiritual Song (1836)
• Bridal Ballad (1837)
• To Zante (1837)
• The Haunted Palace (1839)
• Silence, a Sonnet (1839)
• Lines on Joe Locke (1843)
• The Conqueror Worm (1843)
• Lenore (1843)
• Eulalie (1843)
• A Campaign Song (1844)
• Dream-Land (1844)
• Impromptu. To Kate Carol (1845)
• To Frances (1845)
• The Divine Right of Kings (1845)
• Epigram for Wall Street (1845)
• The Raven (1845)
• A Valentine (1846)
• Beloved Physician (1847)
• An Enigma (1847)
• Deep in Earth (1847)
• Ulalume (1847)
• Lines on Ale (1848)
• To Marie Louise (1848)
• Evangeline (1848)
• A Dream Within A Dream (1849)
• Eldorado (1849)
• For Annie (1849)
• The Bells (1849)
• Annabel Lee (1849)
• Alone (1875)

Tales

• Metzengerstein (1832)
• The Duc De L'Omelette (1832)
• A Tale of Jerusalem (1832)
• Loss of Breath (1832)
• Bon-Bon (1832)
• MS. Found in a Bottle (1833)
• The Assignation (1834)
• Berenice (1835)
• Morella (1835)
• Lionizing (1835)
• The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall (1835)
• King Pest (1835)
• Shadow - A Parable (1835)
• Four Beasts in One - The Homo-Cameleopard (1836)
• Mystification (1837)
• Silence - A Fable (1837)
• Ligeia (1838)
• How to Write a Blackwood Article (1838)
• A Predicament (1838)
• The Devil in the Belfry (1839)
• The Man That Was Used Up (1839)
• The Fall of the House of Usher (1839)
• William Wilson (1839)
• The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion (1839)
• Why the Little Frenchman Wears His Hand in a Sling (1840)
• The Business Man (1840)
• The Man of the Crowd (1840)
• The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841)
• A Descent into the Maelstrom (1841)
• The Island of the Fay (1841)
• The Colloquy of Monos and Una (1841)
• Never Bet the Devil Your Head (1841)
• Eleonora (1841)
• Three Sundays in a Week (1841)
• The Oval Portrait (1842)
• The Masque of the Red Death (1842)
• The Landscape Garden (1842)
• The Mystery of Marie Roget (1842)
• The Pit and the Pendulum (1842)
• The Tell-Tale Heart (1843)
• The Gold-Bug (1843)
• The Black Cat (1843)
• Diddling (1843)
• The Spectacles (1844)
• A Tale of the Ragged Mountains (1844)
• The Premature Burial (1844)
• Mesmeric Revelation (1844)
• The Oblong Box (1844)
• The Angel of the Odd (1844)
• Thou Art the Man (1844)
• The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq. (1844)
• The Purloined Letter (1844)
• The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade (1845)
• Some Words with a Mummy (1845)
• The Power of Words (1845)
• The Imp of the Perverse (1845)
• The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether (1845)
• The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar (1845)
• The Sphinx (1846)
• The Cask of Amontillado (1846)
• The Domain of Arnheim (1847)
• Mellonta Tauta (1849)
• Hop-Frog (1849)
• Von Kempelen and His Discovery (1849)
• X-ing a Paragrab (1849)
• Landor's Cottage (1849)

Essays

• Maelzel's Chess Player (1836)
• The Daguerreotype (1840)
• The Philosophy of Furniture (1840)
• A Few Words on Secret Writing (1841)
• The Rationale of Verse (1843)
• Morning on the Wissahiccon (1844)
• Old English Poetry (1845)
• The Philosophy of Composition (1846)
• The Poetic Principle (1846)
• Eureka (1848)

Hoaxes

• The Balloon-Hoax (1844)

Novels

• The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1837)
• The Journal of Julius Rodman (1840)

Plays

• Scenes From 'Politian' (1835)

Others

• The Conchologist's First Book (1839)
• The Light-House (1849)

External Links

Poe's Works at Project Gutenberg