The complete online text of The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4 by Edgar Allan Poe.

Unquestionably one of America's major writers, Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was far ahead of his time in his vision of a special area of human experience--the "inner world" of dream, hallucination, and imagination. He wrote fiction, poetry, and criticism...

With a relatively small volume of work, some fifty poems, a short novel, about seventy short stories, and a roughly equivalent volume of essays, Edgar Allan Poe has exerted a substantial influence on American and world literature. He may be regarded with...

From the perspective of more than a century and a half, the achievements of Edgar Allan Poe as a man of letters are extraordinary. He may be regarded without too much exaggeration as the single most important influence on the development of an entire poe...

The issue of Poe's "style" has long been a contentious one--and it remains so. Those who have found fault with his prose include Henry James, Yvor Winters, T. S. Eliot, Margaret Fuller, Mark Twain, Julian Symons, Harry Levin, and James M. Cox. Some...

Author Edgar Allan Poe has had a significant influence on his literary contemporaries. To illustrate his influence and prolific work, T.O. Mabott included the phrase 'of all known reprints in America and Britain before 1850, and of translations made on the Continent during Poe's...