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The works of American author Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) include many poems, short stories, and one novel. His fiction spans multiple genres, including horror fiction, adventure, science fiction, and detective fiction, a genre he is credited with inventing. These works are generally considered part of the Dark romanticism movement, a literary reaction to Transcendentalism. Poe's writing reflects his literary theories: he disagreed with didacticism and allegory. Meaning in literature, he said in his criticism, should be an undercurrent just beneath the surface; works whose meanings are too obvious cease to be art. Poe pursued originality in his works, and disliked proverbs. He often included elements of popular pseudosciences such as phrenology and physiognomy. His most recurring themes deal with questions of death, including its physical signs, the effects of decomposition, concerns of premature burial, the reanimation of the dead, and mourning. Though known as a masterly practitioner of Gothic fiction, Poe did not invent the genre; he was following a long-standing popular tradition.

Poe's literary career began in 1827 with the release of 50 copies of Tamerlane and Other Poems credited only to "a Bostonian", a collection of early poems that received virtually no attention. In December 1829, Poe released Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems in Baltimore before delving into short stories for the first time with "Metzengerstein" in 1832. His most successful and most widely read prose during his lifetime was "The Gold-Bug", which earned him a $100 prize, the most money he received for a single work. One of his most important works, "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", was published in 1841 and is today considered the first modern detective story. Poe called it a "tale of ratiocination". Poe became a household name with the publication of "The Raven" in 1845, though it was not a financial success. The publishing industry at the time was a difficult career choice and much of Poe's work was written using themes specifically catered for mass market tastes.

Poetry

Tales

Other works

Essays

• "Maelzel's Chess Player" (April 1836 – Southern Literary Messenger)
• "The Philosophy of Furniture" (May 1840 – Burton's Gentleman's Magazine)
• "A Few Words on Secret Writing" (July 1841 – Graham's Magazine)
• "Morning on the Wissahiccon" (1844 – The Opal)
• "The Balloon-Hoax" (April 13, 1844) – A newspaper article that was actually a journalistic hoax
• "The Philosophy of Composition" (April 1846 – Graham's Magazine)
• "Eureka: A Prose Poem" (March 1848 – Wiley & Putnam)
• "The Rationale of Verse" (October 1848 – Southern Literary Messenger)
• "The Poetic Principle" (December 1848 – Southern Literary Messenger)

Novels

• The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (First two installments, January/February 1837 – Southern Literary Messenger, issued as complete novel in July 1838)
• The Journal of Julius Rodman (First six installments, January–June 1840 – Burton's Gentleman's Magazine) – Incomplete

Plays

• Politian (Two installments, December 1835 – January 1836 – Southern Literary Messenger) – Incomplete

Other

• Tales of the Folio Club – A projected collection of Poe's tales on "dunderism" satirizing the Delphian Club which was never completed in his lifetime
• The Philosophy of Animal Magnetism – A pamphlet on Mesmerism credited to a "Gentleman of Philadelphia" (1837), attributed to Poe using stylometry
• The Conchologist's First Book (1839) – A textbook on sea shells produced by Poe as a condensed version of a textbook by Thomas Wyatt
• The Light-House (1849, never published in Poe's lifetime) – An incomplete work that may have been intended to be a short story or a novel

Collections

This list of collections refers only to those printed during Poe's lifetime with his permission. Modern anthologies are not included.

• Tamerlane and Other Poems (credited by "a Bostonian") (1827)
• Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems (1829)
• Poems (1831, printed as "second edition")
• Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque (December 1839)
• The Prose Romances of Edgar A. Poe (1843)
• Tales (1845, Wiley & Putnam)
• The Raven and Other Poems (1845, Wiley & Putnam)

See also

American journals that Edgar Allan Poe was involved with include:

• American Review: A Whig Journal
• Broadway Journal
• Burton's Gentleman's Magazine
• Godey's Lady's Book
• Graham's Magazine
• Southern Literary Messenger
• The Stylus

References

Notes

1. ^ Silverman 1991, p. 171
2. Koster 2002, p. 336
3. Kagle 1990, p. 104
4. Poe 1847
5. Wilbur 1967, p. 99
6. Hayes 2002, pp. 445–465
7. Hungerford 1930, pp. 209–231
8. Grayson 2005, pp. 56–77
9. Kennedy 1987, p. 3
10. Fisher 2002, p. 72
11. Meyers 1992, pp. 33–34
12. Sova 2001, p. 5
13. ^ Silverman 1991, p. 88
14. Sova 2001, p. 97
15. Hoffman 1998, p. 189
16. ^ Meyers 1992, p. 123
17. Hoffman 1998, p. 80
18. Krutch 1926, p. 155
19. Whalen 2001, p. 67
20. Poe, Edgar Allan. "'Poetry'". Edgar Allan Poe Society online. Archived from the original on October 19, 2012. Retrieved June 22, 2019.
21. Hubbell 1945, pp. 314–321
22. ^ Schöberlein 2017, pp. 650–653
23. ^ Sova 2001, p. 233
24. ^ Sova 2001, p. 271
25. Poe, Edgar Allan. "'Dreams'". Edgar Allan Poe Society online. Archived from the original on December 18, 2015. Retrieved March 29, 2008.
26. Foye 1980, pp. 22–23
27. Poe, Edgar Allan. "'To Margaret'". Edgar Allan Poe Society online. Archived from the original on December 18, 2015. Retrieved March 29, 2008.
28. Sova 2001, p. 8
29. Poe, Edgar Allan. "'To Isaac Lea'". Edgar Allan Poe Society online. Archived from the original on December 18, 2015. Retrieved March 29, 2008.
30. ^ Sova 2001, p. 240
31. ^ Sova 2001, p. 238
32. ^ Sova 2001, p. 225
33. ^ Sova 2001, p. 239
34. ^ Sova 2001, p. 194
35. Poe, Edgar Allan. "'Enigma'". Edgar Allan Poe Society online. Archived from the original on December 18, 2015. Retrieved March 29, 2008.
36. Poe, Edgar Allan. "'Fanny'". Edgar Allan Poe Society online. Archived from the original on December 18, 2015. Retrieved March 29, 2008.
37. Poe, Edgar Allan. "'The Coliseum'". Edgar Allan Poe Society online. Archived from the original on December 18, 2015. Retrieved March 29, 2008.
38. Poe, Edgar Allan. "'Serenade'". Edgar Allan Poe Society online. Archived from the original on December 18, 2015. Retrieved March 29, 2008.
39. ^ Quinn 1998, p. 208
40. Poe, Edgar Allan. "'May Queen Ode'". Edgar Allan Poe Society online. Archived from the original on December 18, 2015. Retrieved March 29, 2008.
41. Poe, Edgar Allan. "'Spiritual Song'". Edgar Allan Poe Society online. Archived from the original on December 18, 2015. Retrieved March 29, 2008.
42. Poe, Edgar Allan. "'Spiritual Song'". Edgar Allan Poe Society online. Archived from the original on December 18, 2015. Retrieved March 29, 2008.
43. Sova 2001, p. 34
44. Silverman 1991, p. 138
45. Sova 2001, p. 220
46. Poe, Edgar Allan. "'Lines on Joe Locke'". Edgar Allan Poe Society online. Archived from the original on December 18, 2015. Retrieved March 29, 2008.
47. ^ Sova 2001, p. 282
48. Silverman 1991, p. 201
49. Poe, Edgar Allan. "'A Campaign Song'". Edgar Allan Poe Society online. Archived from the original on December 18, 2015. Retrieved March 29, 2008.
50. Poe, Edgar Allan. "'Impromptu – To Kate Carol'". Edgar Allan Poe Society online. Archived from the original on December 18, 2015. Retrieved March 29, 2008.
51. Quinn 1998, p. 480
52. Poe, Edgar Allan. "'Epigram for Wall Street'". Edgar Allan Poe Society online. Archived from the original on December 18, 2015. Retrieved March 29, 2008.
53. Poe, Edgar Allan. "'The Raven'". Edgar Allan Poe Society online. Archived from the original on February 20, 2008. Retrieved June 22, 2019.
54. Poe, Edgar Allan. "'The Divine Right of Kings'". Edgar Allan Poe Society online. Archived from the original on December 18, 2015. Retrieved March 29, 2008.
55. Sova 2001, p. 249
56. Meyers 1992, p. 207
57. Foye 1980, p. 29
58. ^ Sova 2001, p. 285
59. Foye 1980, p. 30
60. ^ Sova 2001, p. 219
61. Quinn 1998, p. 605
62. Meyers 1992, p. 244
63. Sova 2001, p. 73
64. ^ Quinn 1998, p. 192
65. Sova 2001, p. 162
66. Silverman 1991, p. 93
67. ^ Quinn 1998, p. 230
68. Sova 2001, p. 90
69. ^ Sova 2001, p. 165
70. Sova 2001, p. 134
71. ^ Sova 2001, p. 200
72. Sova 2001, p. 68
73. Quinn 1998, p. 283
74. Quinn 1998, p. 284
75. ^ Sova 2001, p. 279
76. ^ Sova 2001, p. 280
77. Quinn 1998, p. 309
78. Sova 2001, p. 54
79. Quin, 325
80. Quinn 1998, pp. 328–329
81. Quinn 1998, p. 330
82. Quinn 1998, pp. 330–331
83. Quinn 1998, p. 331
84. Sova 2001, p. 129
85. Meyers 1992, p. 134
86. Sova 2001, p. 188
87. Meyers 1992, p. 137
88. Meyers 1992, pp. 135–136
89. Sova 2001, p. 28
90. ^ Sova 2001, p. 79
91. ^ Quinn 1998, p. 400
92. Quinn 1998, p. 418
93. Sova 2001, p. 154
94. ^ Quinn 1998, p. 422
95. Sova 2001, p. 11
96. Sova 2001, p. 204
97. Sova 2001, p. 237
98. Silverman 1991, p. 294
99. Sova 2001, p. 199
100. Silverman 1991, p. 263
101. Quinn 1998, p. 469
102. Quinn 1998, p. 470
103. Quinn 1998, p. 499
104. Meyers 1992, p. 201
105. Sova 2001, p. 71
106. Tschachler 2013, p. 186
107. Sova 2001, p. 261
108. Sova 2001, p. 128
109. Sova 2001, p. 276
110. Sova 2001, p. 186
111. Rosenheim 1997, p. 19
112. Quinn 1998, p. 410
113. Sova 2001, p. 82
114. Silverman 1991, p. 395
115. Meyers 1992, pp. 95–96
116. Sova 2001, p. 119
117. Hammond, Alexander (1972). "A Reconstruction of Poe's 1833 'Tales of the Folio Club': Preliminary Notes". Poe Studies (1971–1985). 5 (2): 25–32. doi:10.1111/j.1754-6095.1972.tb00190.x. JSTOR 45296608. Archived from the original on September 6, 2021. Retrieved September 7, 2021.
118. Poe, Edgar Allan. "'The Light-House'". Edgar Allan Poe Society online. Archived from the original on December 18, 2015. Retrieved March 29, 2008.
119. Silverman 1991, p. 68
120. Silverman 1991, p. 153
121. Ostram 1987, p. 40
122. Sova 2001, p. 232
123. Silverman 1991, p. 299

Sources

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• Foye, Raymond, ed. (1980). The Unknown Poe: An Anthology of Fugitive Writings by Edgar Allan Poe. San Francisco: City Lights Books. ISBN 978-0-87286-110-7.
• Grayson, Eric (2005). "Weird Science, Weirder Unity: Phrenology and Physiognomy in Edgar Allan Poe". Mode 1: 56–77. Retrieved December 28, 2011.
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• Tschachler, Heinz (2013). The Monetary Imagination of Edgar Allan Poe: Banking, Currency, and Politics in the Writings. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company. ISBN 978-0-7864-7583-4.
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External links

• Works by Edgar Allan Poe in eBook form at Standard Ebooks
• The Works of Edgar Allan Poe Archived August 15, 2012, at the Wayback Machine at the Edgar Allan Poe Society online – includes multiple versions of fiction, essays, criticisms
• Complete list of Poe's contributions Archived April 17, 2012, at the Wayback Machine to various journals and magazines at bartleby.com
• Works by or about Edgar Allan Poe at the Internet Archive
• A collection of Poe's short fiction at Standard Ebooks

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