Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American poet, short story writer, editor and critic and one of the leaders of the American Romantics. He is best known for his tales of the macabre and his poems, as well as being one of the early practitioners of the short story and a progenitor of Gothic and Detective fiction (Crime fiction) in the United States.

Notable works

Poems

• A Dream (1827) (Full Text at WikiSource)
• A Dream Within a Dream (1827) (Full Text at WikiSource)
• Dreams (1827) (Full Text at WikiSource)
• Tamerlane (1827) (Full Text at WikiSource)
• Al Aaraaf (1829) (Full Text at WikiSource)
• Alone (1830) (Full Text at WikiSource)
• To Helen (1831) (Full Text at WikiSource)
• Israfel (1831) (Full Text at WikiSource)
• The City in the Sea (1831) (Full Text at WikiSource)
• The Conqueror Worm (1837) (Full Text at WikiSource)
• Silence (1840) (Full Text at WikiSource)
• Lenore (1843) (Full Text at WikiSource)
• Dreamland (1844) (Full Text at WikiSource)
• The Raven (1845) (Full Text)
• Ulalume (1847) (Full Text at WikiSource)
• Eureka (1848) a prose poem.
• Annabel Lee (1849) (Full Text at WikiSource)
• The Bells (1849) (Full Text at WikiSource)

Stories

• Berenice (1835)
• Ligeia (1838)
• The Fall of the House of Usher (1839) (Full text at WikiSource)
• William Wilson (1839) (Full Text at WikiSource)
• The Masque of the Red Death (1842) (Full Text at WikiSource)
• The Pit and the Pendulum (1842) (Full text at WikiSource)
• The Gold Bug (1843) (Full text at WikiSource)
• The Tell-Tale Heart (1843) (Full text at WikiSource)
• The Spectacles (1844) (Full text at WikiSource)
• The Balloon-Hoax (1844) (Full text at WikiSource)
• The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar (1845) (Full text at WikiSource)
• Some Words with a Mummy (1845) (Full text at Wikisource)
• The Cask of Amontillado (1846) (Full text at Wikisource)
• The Light-House (unfinished, published posthumously in 1909 and 1942)

The Auguste Dupin stories

• The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841) (Full textat Wikisource)
• The Mystery of Marie Roget (1843) (Full text at Wikisource)
• The Purloined Letter (1844) (Full text at Wikisource)

Longer Works

• The Unparalleled Adventures of One Hans Pfall (1835)
• The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (novel) (1838)

Essays

• Maelzel's Chess-Player (1836)
• The Philosophy of Composition (1846)
• The Rational of Verse
• The Poetic Principle (Posthumously published, 1850)
• ' (1848) http://www.eapoe.org/works/editions/eurekac.htm (also known as Eureka: A Prose Poem)

Play

• Politian (fragment, 1835) (Scenes at Wikisource)