Edgar Allan Poe: The Complete Poems

Written by Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by Peter Noble

The complete collection of Edgar Allan Poe's poems, read by Audie-award winning actor Peter Noble.

Edgar Allan Poe was a writer, poet, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre, and is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States, and of American literature. Poe was one of the country's earliest practitioners of the short story, and considered to be the inventor of the detective fiction genre, as well as a significant contributor to the emerging genre of science fiction.

The 70+ poems included here are:
- A Campaign Song
- A Dream
- A Dream Within a Dream
- A Pæan
- A Valentine
- An Acrostic
- Al Aaraaf
- Alone
- An Enigma
- Annabel Lee
- Beloved Physician
- Bridal Ballad
- Deep in Earth
- The Divine Right of Kings
- Dream-Land
- Eldorado
- Elizabeth
- Enigma
- Epigram for Wall Street
- Eulalie, A Song
- Evangeline
- Evening Star
- Fairy-Land
- Fanny
- For Annie
- Hymn
- Hymn to Aristogeiton and Harmodius
- In Youth I Have Known One
- Impromptu. To Kate Carol
- Israfel
- Lenore
- Lines on Ale
- Lines Written in an Album
- Lines on Joe Locke
- May Queen Ode
- O, Tempora! O, Mores!
- Poetry
- Romance
- Serenade
- Silence
- The Sleeper
- Song
- Sonnet — To Science
- Sonnet — To Zante
- Spirits of the Dead
- Spiritual Song
- Stanzas
- Tamerlane
- The Bells
- The City in the Sea
- The Coliseum
- The Conqueror Worm
- The Forest Reverie
- The Happiest Day
- The Haunted Palace
- The Lake
- The Raven
- The Valley of Unrest
- The Village Street
- To —— (1829, #1)
- To —— (1829, #2)
- To F—— (1845)
- To F——s S. O——d (1835 / 1845)
- To Helen
- To Isaac Lea
- To M——
- To M. L. S——
- To Margaret
- To Marie Louise
- To Miss Louise Olivia Hunter
- To My Mother
- To Octavia
- To One in Paradise
- To the River
- A Valentine
- Ulalume

• Language: English
• Publisher: SNR Audio
• Release date: Dec 30, 2021
• ISBN: 9781914230967

Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was an American poet, short story writer, and editor. Born in Boston to a family of actors, Poe was abandoned by his father in 1810 before being made an orphan with the death of his mother the following year. Raised in Richmond, Virginia by the Allan family of merchants, Poe struggled with gambling addiction and frequently fought with his foster parents over debts. He attended the University of Virginia for a year before withdrawing due to a lack of funds, enlisting in the U.S. Army in 1827. That same year, Poe anonymously published Tamerlane and Other Poems, his first collection. After failing to graduate from West Point, Poe began working for several literary journals as a critic and editor, moving from Richmond to Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York. In 1836, he obtained a special license to marry Virginia Clemm, his 13-year-old cousin, who moved with him as he pursued his career in publishing. In 1838, Poe published The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, a tale of a stowaway on a whaling ship and his only novel. In 1842, Virginia began showing signs of consumption, and her progressively worsening illness drove Poe into deep depression and alcohol addiction. “The Raven” (1845) appeared in the Evening Mirror on January 29th. It was an instant success, propelling Poe to the forefront of the American literary scene and earning him a reputation as a leading Romantic. Following Virginia’s death in 1847, Poe became despondent, overwhelmed with grief and burdened with insurmountable debt. Suffering from worsening mental and physical illnesses, Poe was found on the streets of Baltimore in 1849 and died only days later. He is now recognized as a literary pioneer who made important strides in developing techniques essential to horror, detective, and science fiction.