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Introduction -- Editorial Principles -- Part 1: Tales -- 1. Ms. Found in a Bottle (1833) -- 2. Berenice (1835) -- 3. Morella (1835) -- 4. Ligeia (1838) -- 5. How to Write a Blackwood Article/A Predicament (1838) -- 6. The Man That Was Used Up (1839) -- 7. The Fall of the House of Usher (1839) -- 8. William Wilson (1839) -- 9. The Man of the Crowd (1840) -- 10. The Murders into the Rue Morgue (1841) -- 11. A Descent in the Maelstrom (1841) -- 12. The Masque of the Red Death (1842) -- 13. The Pit and the Pendulum (1842) -- 14. The Tell-Tale Heart (1843) -- 15. The Gold-Bug (1843) -- 16. The Black Cat (1843) -- 17. The Premature Burial (1844) -- 18. The Purloined Letter (1844) -- 19. The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether (1844) -- 20. The Balloon-Hoax (1844) -- 21. The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq. (1844) -- 22. Some Words with a Mummy (1845) -- 23. The Imp of the Perverse (1845) -- 24. The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar (1845) -- 25. The Cask of Amontillado (1846) -- 26. Hop-Frog (1849) -- Part 2: Poems -- 27. Sonnet-To Science -- 28. "Alone" -- 29. To Helen -- 30. Israfel -- 31. The Sleeper -- 32. The City in the Sea -- 33. The Haunted Palace -- 34. The Conqueror Worm -- 35. Dream-Land -- 36. The Raven -- 37. Ulalume-A Ballad -- 38. The Bells -- 39. Annabel Lee -- Part 3: Letters, Prefaces, Critical Writings -- 40. Letter to John Allan 12/22/28 [capturing their troubled relationship] -- 41. Letter to T. W. White 4/30/35 [defense of grotesque imagery in Berenice] -- 42. Letter to Maria and Virginia Clemm 8/29/35 [Poe's devotion to Virginia] -- 43. Letter to B __ [poetry is about pleasure, not truth] SLM 1836 -- 44. Letter to John P. Kennedy [tales are half-banter, half-satire] -- 45. Letter to Philip P. Cooke 9/21/39 [Poe explicates Ligeia] -- 46. Letter to Frederick Thomas (May 4 1845): [wrote The Raven for popularity] -- 47. Letter to Philip P. Cooke 8/9/46: [Poe on his tales of ratiocination] -- 48. Letter to George W. Eveleth [Poe on a flaw in The Raven] -- 49. Letter to George W. Eveleth 1/4/48 [Poe explains his drinking] -- 50. Prospectus of The Penn Magazine -- 51. Review of Edward Lytton Bulwer [Poe on plot] Graham's 1841 -- 52. Review of Longfellow [Poe criticizes didacticism] 1842 -- 53. Review of Guy Fawkes, by William Harrison Ainsworth [Poe's tomahawk] Nov 1841 -- 54. Review of Twice-Told Tales [Poe on superiority of tale to novel] Apr 1842 -- 55. From Review of Twice-Told Tales [Poe on unity of effect May 1842] -- 56. Preface to The Raven and Other Poems [poetry not a purpose, but a passion] -- 57. The Philosophy of Composition -- 58. The Poetic Principle -- 59. Some Secrets of the Magazine Prison-House -- Part 4: Related Literary Works -- The Confessions of Nat Turner (Thomas Gray) -- Hymn to the Night (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) -- A Psalm of Life (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) -- The Cross of Snow (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) -- The Birth Mark (Nathaniel Hawthorne) -- Wakefield (Nathaniel Hawthorne) -- Young Goodman Brown (Nathaniel Hawthorne) -- The Quaker City [excerpt](George Lippard) -- The Great Lawsuit [excerpt](Margaret Fuller) -- The Poet (Ralph Waldo Emerson) -- Unseen Spirits (Nathaniel Parker Willis) -- The Madhouse of Palermo (Nathaniel Parker Willis) -- Out of the Cradle, Endlessly Rocking (Walt Whitman) -- 1849 Obituary of Poe (Rufus Griswold) -- I Felt a Funeral, In My Brain (Emily Dickinson) -- One Need Not Be A Chamber - To Be Haunted (Emily Dickinson) -- After Great Pain, A Formal Feeling Comes (Emily Dickinson) -- Part 5: Reader's Guide -- Contexts -- Style -- Contemporary Reception -- Afterlife and Influence -- Scholarship and Interpretation -- Sources for Further Study -- Index. "A collection of more than 50 of Edgar Allan Poe's most important works, which established him as one of the most distinctive voices in American literature, Tales, Poems and Other Writings of Edgar Allan Poe brings together in one volume stories such as 'The Fall of the House of Usher,' 'The Tell-Tale Heart' and 'The Purloined Letter' as well as his Gothic narrative poem 'The Raven' and some his most significant critical writings. Alongside authoritative annotated texts of each work, this book also includes a complete Reader's Guide to Poe's work, helping explore the contexts, style, and reception of his writing from his own time to today. Related works by the likes of Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson and Nathaniel Hawthorne are also included for comparative reading and study."--
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