



Produced by David Widger





THE WORKS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE

IN FIVE VOLUMES

The Raven Edition




CONTENTS:

     Philosophy of Furniture
     A Tale of Jerusalem
     The Sphinx
     Hop Frog
     The Man of the Crowd
     Never Bet the Devill Your Head
     Thou Art the Man
     Why the Little Frenchman Wears his Hand in a Sling
     Bon-Bon
     Some words with a Mummy
     The Poetic Principle
     Old English Poetry


POEMS:

     Dedication
     Preface

     Poems of Later Life

     The Raven
     The Bells
     Ulalume
     To Helen
     Annabel Lee
     A Valentine
     An Enigma
     To my Mother
     For Annie
     To F----     To Frances S. Osgood
     Eldorado
     Eulalie
     A Dream within a Dream
     To Marie Louise (Shew)
     To the Same
     The City in the Sea
     The Sleeper
     Bridal Ballad
     Notes

     Poems of Manhood

     Lenore
     To One in Paradise
     The Coliseum
     The Haunted Palace
     The Conqueror Worm
     Silence
     Dreamland
     Hymn
     To Zante
     Scenes from "Politian"
     Note

     Poems of Youth

     Introduction (1831)
     Sonnet--To Science
     Al Aaraaf
     Tamerlane
     To Helen
     The Valley of Unrest
     Israfel
     To -- ("The Bowers Whereat, in Dreams I See")
     To -- ("I Heed not That my Earthly Lot")
     To the River --     Song
     A Dream
     Romance
     Fairyland
     The Lake To--     "The Happiest Day"
     Imitation
     Hymn. Translation from the Greek
     "In Youth I Have Known One"
     A Paean
     Notes

     Doubtful Poems

     Alone
     To Isadore
     The Village Street
     The Forest Reverie
     Notes




PHILOSOPHY OF FURNITURE.

In the internal decoration, if not in the external architecture of
their residences, the English are supreme. The Italians have but little
sentiment beyond marbles and colours. In France, _meliora probant,
deteriora _sequuntur--the people are too much a race of gadabouts to
maintain those household proprieties of which, indeed, they have a
delicate appreciation, or at least the elements of a proper sense. The
Chinese and most of the eastern races have a warm but inappropriate
fancy. The Scotch are _poor _decorists. The Dutch have, perhaps, an
indeterminate idea that a curtain is not a cabbage. In Spain they are
_all _curtains--a nation of hangmen. The Russians do not furnish. The
Hottentots and Kickapoos are very well in their way. The Yankees alone
are preposterous.

How this happens, it is not difficult to see. We have no aristocracy of
blood, and having therefore as a natural, and indeed as an inevitable
thing, fashioned for ourselves an aristocracy of dollars, the _display
of wealth _has here to take the place and perform the office of the
heraldic display in monarchical countries. By a transition readily
understood, and which might have been as readily foreseen, we have been
brought to merge in simple _show_ our notions of taste itself.

To speak less abstractly. In England, for example, no mere parade
of costly appurtenances would be so likely as with us, to create
an impression of the beautiful in respect to the appurtenances
themselves--or of taste as regards the proprietor:--this for the reason,
first, that wealth is not, in England, the loftiest object of ambition
as constituting a nobility; and secondly, that there, the true nobility
of blood, confining itself within the strict limits of legitimate taste,
rather avoids than affects that mere costliness in which a _parvenu
_rivalry