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The Complete Poems of Edgar Allan Poe (1911 and 1917), title page and table of contents


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Title page:

 

THE COMPLETE POEMS

OF

EDGAR ALLAN POE

 

COLLECTED, EDITED, AND ARRANGED WITH MEMOIR, TEXTUAL NOTES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY

BY

J. H. WHITTY

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS

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BOSTON AND NEW YORK

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY

The Riverside Press Cambridge

1911

 



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Table of Contents

[page vii-ix:]

                             PAGE
[Engraved portrait of Poe (frontispiece)]    [fr]
[PREFACE    xii]
MEMOIR    xix
THE RAVEN AND OTHER POEMS     
[Preface and Dedication    3]
THE RAVEN    7
THE VALLEY OF UNREST    14
BRIDAL BALLAD    15
THE SLEEPER    17
THE COLISEUM    19
LENORE    21
HYMN    23
ISRAFEL    24
DREAM-LAND    26
SONNET — TO ZANTE    28
THE CITY IN THE SEA    29
TO ONE IN PARADISE    31
EULALIE — A SONG    32
TO F——S S. O——D    33
TO F——    34
SONNET — SILENCE    35
THE CONQUEROR WORM    36
THE HAUNTED PALACE    38
SCENES FROM “POLITIAN” AN UNPUBLISHED DRAMA    40
LATER POEMS     
THE BELLS    63
TO M. L. S—— (195)    67
TO —— —— —— [[“Not long ago, the writer of these lines ...”]]    68
SONNET (AN ENIGMA)    69
TO —— —— —— (TO HELEN)    70
A VALENTINE    73
FOR ANNIE    74
SONNET — TO MY MOTHER    78
ELDORADO    79
ANNABEL LEE    80
ULALUME    82
POEMS WRITTEN IN YOUTH     
[Note to Poems Written in Youth    88]
TAMERLANE    89
SONNET — TO SCIENCE    98
AL AARAAF    99
ROMANCE    116
SONG    117
DREAMS    118
SPIRITS OF THE DEAD    120
EVENING STAR    122
TO —— (A DREAM WITHIN A DREAM)    123
“IN YOUTH HAVE I KNOWN ONE WITH WHOM THE EARTH”    124
A DREAM    126
“THE HAPPIEST DAY, THE HAPPIEST HOUR”    127
THE LAKE    128
TO —— [[“The bowers whereat ...”]]    129
TO THE RIVER ——    130
TO —— [[“I heed not that my earthly lot ...”]]    131
FAIRY-LAND    132
TO HELEN    134
FROM AN ALBUM (ALONE)    135
POEMS NOW FIRST COLLECTED     
SPIRITUAL SONG    139
ELIZABETH    140
FROM AN ALBUM [[“Elizabeth it is in vain you say ...”]]    141
TO SARAH [[not actually by Poe]]    142
THE GREAT MAN [[not actually by Poe]]    143
GRATITUDE [[not actually by Poe]]    144
AN ENIGMA [[not actually by Poe]]    146
IMPROMPTU TO KATE CAROL    147
STANZAS [[To F. S. O.]] [[added 1917]]    [148]
THE DIVINE RIGHT OF KINGS [[added 1917]]    [150]
THE VITAL SREAM [[added 1917]] [[not actually by Poe]]    [151]
COUPLET (DEEP IN EARTH MY LOVE IS LYING) [[added 1917]]    [152]
LINES TO JOE LOCKE [[added 1917]]    [153]
ADDITIONAL POEMS WITH POETRY ATTRIBUTED TO POE     
SONG OF TRIUMPH    151
LATIN HYMN    152
THE SKELETON-HAND [[not actually by Poe]]    153
THE MAGICIAN [[not actually by Poe]]    156
[QUEEN OF MAY ODE [[added in 1918]]    164]
[FANNY [[added in 1918]]    165]
[TO —— [[“Sleep on, sleep on, another hour ... [[added in 1918]]    166]
HYMN TO ARISTOGEITON AND HARMODIUS [[not actually by Poe]] [[omitted in 1918]]    158
THE MAMMOTH SQUASH [[not actually by Poe]] [[omitted in 1918]]    159
OH TEMPORA! OH MORES    161
APPENDIX    169
[Appendix I: Poems in the Chase Volume [[1911 only]]    169]
[Appendix I: The Baltimore Saturday Visiter, etc. [[1917]]    175]
[Appendix II: The Yankee and Boston Literary Gazette    170]
[Appendix III: Mythical Poe Poems    177]
[Appendix IV: Letters Relating to Poe    177]
[Appendix V: The Ellis-Allan Papers [[added 1917]]    [186]
[Appendix VI: Poe in Scotland [[added 1917]]    [201]
[Appendix VII: Poe's Revision of Other's Poetry [[added 1917]]    [209]
NOTES AND VARIORUM TEXT OF THE POEMS    183
[Notes and Variorum Text Part 01    183]
[Notes and Variorum Text Part 02    247]
[Notes and Variorum Text Part 03 [[added 1917]]    320]
[Notes Mainly on Changes and Additions [[added 1917]]    323]
BIBLIOGRAPHY    291
[Bibliography [[1911 edition]]    291]
[Bibliography [[1917 edition]]    333]
INDEX OF FIRST LINES    301
INDEX OF TITLES    303

 


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Notes:

This table of contents is a reasonable facsimile of the original edition, with some compromises for the sake of formatting. For a few of the poems with vague or generic titles, part of the first line has been provided for the sake of identification. Poems that Whitty included, but which are now known not to be by Poe, have been marked.

The dedication page reads:

TO

GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY

George Edward Woodberry (1855-1930) was a prominent poet, critic, educator and Poe scholar.

The first edition of 1911 is noted on the copyright page as having been published May 1911. According to the Catalogue of Copyright Entries, published monthly by the Library of Congress (no. 47, July 1911, Part I, Group I, Books, entry 2992), the first edition of the book was copyrighted by J. H. Whitty in Richmond, VA on May 6, 1911 and affirmed June 15, 1911. The 1917 edition does not include such a note, but a presentation copy, from Whitty to G. E. Woodberry was inscribed with the date of May 14, 1917. (This copy is currently in a private collection.) According to the Catalogue of Copyright Entries, published monthly by the Library of Congress (no. 50, July 1917, Part I, Group I, Books, entry 2328), the second edition of the book was copyrighted by J. H Whitty in Richmond, VA on May 12, 1917 and affirmed May 17, 1917.


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