The Complete Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe

A GENUINE DATE-STAMPED 1909 UK EDITION THAT IS NOW 114 YEARS OLD & VERY WELL-PRESERVED
PRINTED AND BOUND IN LONDON BY HENRY HORACE HART AT THE OXFORD PRESS
A VERY HARD-TO-COME-BY PRINTING, AND THE ONLY ONE I CAN FIND WITH THESE COVERS AND SPINE
INCLUDES THE RAVEN, THE BELLS, A DREAM WITHIN A DREAM, TO HELEN, THE HAUNTED PALACE, DREAMLAND, FOR ANNIE, TAMERLANE, ULALUME, FOR ANNIE, ELDORADO, TO MY MOTHER, ANNABELLE LEE, THE VALLEY OF UNREST, THE MEMOIR OF POE, THE POETIC PRINCIPLE, THE PHILOSOPHY OF COMPOSITION, THE RATIONALE OF VERSE & MORE
THIS BOOK CONTAINS OVER 50 DIFFERENT WORKS BY POE, WITH 11 FROM HIS YOUTH
INCLUDES A SELDOM-SEEN PHOTO OF POE TAKEN FROM THE 1848 DAGUERETYPE ONE YEAR BEFORE HIS MYSTERIOUS DEATH

This is a scarce early 1900s edition of Poe's complete Poetical works. A very good-sized printing with all of his monumental works and some harder-to-come-by poems and extras. Although it was printed five years before the first world war of 1914, this beautiful book has been well-preserved for over a century. It includes poems dating back to his youth and as early as some of his first-ever publications in 1827. As stated, this is the only one I can find with these lovely covers and spine. I would snag this one before it's gone.

Regarding the Printer of this book. Horace Henry Hart (1840 – 9 October 1916) was an English printer and biographer.
Hart served as Printer to the University of Oxford and Controller of the University Press between 1883 and 1915. During that time, he convinced the Press to begin using wood-pulp paper, and also introduced collotype and printing by lithography. In 1896, he wrote a monograph on Charles, Earl Stanhope and the Oxford University Press. In 1900, he wrote Notes on a Century of Typography at the University Press Oxford 1693–1794.

The overall condition of this book is very good based on the fact that it was bound over 100 years ago. It does have some average age, shelf wear, and reading use, but it is in lovely condition.


THIS EDITION INCLUDES EXTRAS SUCH AS

THE POETIC PRINCIPLE:
"The Poetic Principle" is an essay by Edgar Allan Poe, written near the end of his life and published posthumously in 1850, the year after his death. It is a work of literary criticism, in which Poe presents his literary theory. It is based on a series of lectures Poe had given late in his lifetime.

THE PHILOSOPHY OF COMPOSITION:
The Philosophy of Composition" is an 1846 essay written by American writer Edgar Allan Poe that elucidates a theory about how good writers write when they write well. He concludes that length, "unity of effect," and a logical method are important considerations for good writing. He assertion that "the death... of a beautiful woman" is "unquestionably the most poetical topic in the ."old." Poe uses the composition of own poem "The Raven" as an example. The essay first appeared in the April 1846 issue of Graham's Magazine. However, it is still being determined if it is an authentic portrayal of Poown method.

THE RATIONALE OF VERSE.
The word "Verse" is here used not in its strict or primitive snse, but as the term most convenient for expressing generally and without pedantry all that is invalid consideration of rhythm, rhymeteretre, and versification.

There is, perhaps, no topic in polite literature that has been more pertinaciously discussed, and there is certainly not one about which so much inaccuracy, confusion, misconception, misrepresentation, mystification, and downright ignorance on all sides, can be fairly said to exist. Were the topic really difficult, or did it lie, even, in the cloud-land of metaphysics, where the doubt-vapors may be made to assume any and every shape at the will or at the fancy of the gazer, we should have less reason to wonder at all this contradiction and perplexity; but in fact the subject is exceedingly simple; one tenth of it, possibly, may be called ethnine-tenthstenths, however, appertain to the mathematics; and the whole is included within the limits of the commonest common sense.