The Poems & Three Essays on Poetry / NARRATIVE OF ARTHUR GORDON PYM / MISCELLANIES

PRErACE TO THE POBMS I Poems rublished before 1845 and not included ln the Edition or that Year {a) From Tamerlane and other Poems, 1827. ‘ The Happiest Uav, the Happiest Hour ’ . 5 Stanzas (‘ In joulh have I known one with whom the Earth ’) h Evening Star . " Xlreanio 8 (h) From 4/ iaraaf, Tnimrlane and M inor Poems, \&29 Spirits of the i>t ad . . 9 To M .10 The Paven avu othir Poems, 184") iJedication . 13 Piefaco . 14 *Tho Haven 15 The Valley of Unrest 20 •Biidal Ballad 20 The SloejHir 21 The t’oliseuni 23 ’Ja'Iioio . 24 Catholic H^I mil 25 Israfel . 20 •Dreamland 27 Sonnet — to Xante 29 The City in the Sea . . 29 *To Olio in Paradise _ 3 j Eulalie — a Song . 32 To F — ^ — s S O- <1 32 To F . . . . . . 33 Sonnet— Silence _ 33 •The Conqueror AVorin . 3 .^ • Revised after the I,orimer (irubam copj vi CJONTENTS tAOJt The Haunted Palace . . . .36 Scenes from ‘ Politian ’ . .37 Poems watprEif ik Youth Sonnet — ^to Science . 01 A1 Aaraaf . 61 Poe’s Notes to ‘ A1 Aaraaf ’ . 72 Tamerlane . . 76 A Dream . . .82 Romance 82 Faiiy-land 83 To (‘The bowers whereat, in dreams, I ace ’) 84 To the River 84 The Jjake — To . 85 Song (■ I saw thee on thy bridal day ) 86 To Helen (‘ Helen, thy beauty is to me ’) 80 Fbom Works or the i.ate E A Poe (Grisw old, 1 S.'iO), and ‘ Alone ’ To M. L S 89 An Enigma . 89 A Valentme 90 Annabel Lee 90 The Bells 91 Eldorado 94 Ulalume . 95 To Helen (‘ I saw thee once — once only— years ago ’) 98 Xo (‘ Not long ago, the writer of these lines ’) 99 For Annie ^90 To my Mother • 193 A Dream withm a Dream 193 Alone (Scribner's Magazine, 1876) 194 Other Texts for some of the Poems. Spinte of the Dead (Visit of the Dead, 1827) . .107 The Valley of Unrest (The Valley Nis, 1 831 ) . 198 The Sleeper (Irene, 1831) . 199 Lenore (A Paean, 1831) . . . . • 11 Lenore (1843 text) . . . . 112 Israfel (1831 text) . .114 The City in the Sea (The Doomed City, 1831 ) . 116 Tamerlane (1827 text) • Poe’s Notes to 1827 text 128 A Bomance (Introduction, 1831) 130 Fairy-land (1831 text) . . -132 The Lake (1827 text) . 133 The Bells (First Draft) . 134 Note on the same 135 To (To Mane Louise, MS text) 135 A Dream withm a Dream (Imitation, 1827) 136 A Dream wit^u* * Iiroemi (To , 1829) 137 Bibliographt . 139 Notes — Matn t.y Textual 149 Index to First Lines . 163 PROSE Three Essays on Poetry. The Poetic Prmciple 165 The Philosophy of Composition . 189 The Rationale of Verse . 203 NARRATIVE OF A GORDON PYM 249 Misoellantes The Bystem of Dr Tarr and Prof. Fethei 433 The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq. 451 How to write a Blachmod Article 470 A Predicament . 480 Mystihoation . 489 X-ing a Paragrab 498 Diddling, considered as one of the Exact Sciences 504 The Angel of the Odd. An Eixtravaganza . 516 MeUonta Tauta . . 524 Igss of Breath . 538 The Man that was used up . 651 The Busmess Man ... 56