Poems (1831), title page and table of contents

Notes:

There is no formal table of contents in the original (merely the block list of titles noted above). One has been created here merely for purposes of convenience.

The quotation from the center of the title page is something of an error. Poe seems to have borrowed the information from Isaac D’Israeli, who also misspelled Rochefoucald as Rochefoucalt. At any rate, the quotation is actually from Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussee's comical play La Gouvernante, 1747. The full quotation is “Quand tout le monde a tort, tout le monde a raison,” meaning “When everyone is wrong, everyone is equally right.” (See Mabbott, Poems, 1969, p. 155n1.)

The notation of “Second Edition” is acknowledgement that many of the poems had already been published in Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems (1829). Why Poe did not consider it a third edition of Tamerlane and Other Poems (1827) is a matter of conjecture.

For the most part, each poem is preceeded by a page with the title in capital letters. These pages have chiefly been reflected here in the table of contents above.