Author:Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe
(1809–1849)

Portrait of Edgar Allan Poe, late May–early June 1849, daguerreotype

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Titles given below in parenthesis signify an unnamed or unpublished work.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, 4 vol. (1859)
• Tales of Mystery & Imagination (1908)
• Poe's Tales of Mystery and Imagination, illustrated by Arthur Rackham (1935)

Stories

• Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque (1840)
• The Prose Romances of Edgar A. Poe (1843)
• Tales (1845)
• Mystery Tales of Edgar Allan Poe (1907) (transcription project)

Poems

• Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems (1829)
• Poems (1831)
• The Raven and Other Poems (1845)
• Tamerlane and other poems, type facsimile by R. H. Shephard (1884)

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 version)
  • Tamerlane (1845 version)
• To —— (1829)
• To —— (1833)
• To —— —— (Poe) (1828)
• To F—— (1835)
• To F——s S. O——d (1833)
• To Helen (1831)
• To Helen (1848)
• (To Isaac Lea) (1829)
• 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)

Individual stories

Title	Year	Notes
Tale of Jerusalem, A A Tale of Jerusalem	1832
Bon-Bon	1832
Loss of Breath	1832
Metzengerstein	1832
Duc de L'Omelette, The The Duc de L'Omelette	1832
Four Beasts in One	1833
MS. Found in a Bottle	1833
Assignation, The The Assignation	1834
Berenice	1835
King Pest	1835
Lionizing	1835
Morella	1835
Shadow	1835
Mystification	1837
Predicament, A A Predicament	1838
How to Write a Blackwood Article	1838
Ligeia	1838
Silence	1838
Conversation of Eiros and Charmion, The The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion	1839
Devil in the Belfry, The The Devil in the Belfry	1839
Fall of the House of Usher, The The Fall of the House of Usher	1839
Man That Was Used Up, The The Man That Was Used Up	1839
Why the Little Frenchman Wears His Hand in a Sling	1839
William Wilson	1839
Business Man, The The Business Man	1840
Journal of Julius Rodman, The The Journal of Julius Rodman	1840
Man of the Crowd, The The Man of the Crowd	1840
Descent into the Maelström, A A Descent into the Maelström	1841
Eleonora	1841
Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe/Volume 2/Never Bet the Devil Your Head Never Bet the Devil Your Head	1841
Colloquy of Monos and Una, The The Colloquy of Monos and Una	1841
Island of the Fay, The The Island of the Fay	1841
Murders in the Rue Morgue, The The Murders in the Rue Morgue	1841
Three Sundays in a Week	1841
Gold-Bug, The The Gold-Bug	1842
Landscape Garden, The The Landscape Garden	1842
Masque of the Red Death, The The Masque of the Red Death	1842
Mystery of Marie Rogêt, The The Mystery of Marie Rogêt	1842
Oval Portrait, The The Oval Portrait	1842
Pit and the Pendulum, The The Pit and the Pendulum	1842
Tale of the Ragged Mountains, A A Tale of the Ragged Mountains	1843
Diddling Considered as One of the Exact Sciences	1843
Black Cat, The The Black Cat	1843
Tell-Tale Heart, The The Tell-Tale Heart	1843
Mesmeric Revelation	1844
Angel of the Odd, The The Angel of the Odd	1844
Balloon-Hoax, The The Balloon-Hoax	1844
Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq., The The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq.	1844
Oblong Box, The The Oblong Box	1844
Premature Burial, The The Premature Burial	1844
Purloined Letter, The The Purloined Letter	1844
Spectacles, The The Spectacles	1844
System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether, The The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether	1844
Thou Art the Man	1844
Some Words with a Mummy	1845
Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar, The The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar	1845	Original publication in American Review: A Whig Journal of Politics, Literature, Art, and Science/Volume 02/December 1845/The Facts of M. Valdemar's Case The American Review (December 1845) From Amazing Stories (April 1926)
Imp of the Perverse, The The Imp of the Perverse	1845
Power of Words (Edgar Allan Poe) The Power of Words	1845
Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade, The The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade	1845
Cask of Amontillado, The The Cask of Amontillado	1846
Domain of Arnheim, The The Domain of Arnheim	1846
Sphinx, The The Sphinx	1846
Light-House, The (The Light-House)	1849
Hop-Frog	1849
Landor's Cottage	1849
Mellonta Tauta	1849
Von Kempelen and His Discovery	1849
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" Broadway Journal, vol. I, no. 7, April 12, 1845, 1:103-104 (1845)
• "Anastatic Printing" Broadway Journal, vol. I, no. 15, April 12, 1845, 1:229-231 (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)

Letters

• The Letters Of Edgar Allan Poe (1948), by John Ward Ostrom IA

Criticism

• Review of Ballads and Other Poems
• Review of The Quacks of Helicon
• Review of The Old Curiosity Shop
• Review of Twice-Told Tales (1842)

Works about Poe

Books

• Edgar Poe and his Critics (1860) by Sarah Helen Whitman
• Edgar Allan Poe (1881), by Edmund Clarence Stedman IA
• Edgar Allan Poe (1885), by George Edward Woodberry IA
• Edgar Allan Poe - a centenary tribute, by the Edgar Allan Poe Memorial Association (1910)
• Edgar Allan Poe - How to know him (1921), by Charles Alphonso Smith (transcription project)

Encyclopedia articles

• "Poe, Edgar Allan," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Poe, Edgar Allan," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Poe", in The Cambridge History of American Literature (1917–1921)
• "Poe, Edgar Allan," by Emilie Watts McVea in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
• "Poe, Edgar Allan," in Collier's New Encyclopedia, New York: P. F. Collier & Son Co. (1921)

Newspaper articles

• "Death of Edgar Allan Poe" (October 9, 1849) by Rufus Wilmot Griswold (1849)

Poems 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)
• "Edgar Allan Poe" by Tom McInnes (1909)
• "The Fall of Usher" by Thomas Holley Chivers

On his works

• "Fall of the House of Usher, The," by William B. Cairns in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
• "Gold-Bug, The," by William B. Cairns in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
• "Raven, The," by Edward Everett Hale in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)

See also

• Edgar Allan Poe bibliography (Wikipedia)
• The Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore