Edgar Allan Poe - Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe is perhaps best known as a writer of mystery tales. However, he was also of great importance as a poet -- a serious craftsman who influenced many later writers and himself took bold, imaginative strides into the future. While some of his poems have the macabre overtones of his stories, others are simple, lyrical expressions of emotion evoking a timeless and haunting quality. This selection of his verse is accompanied throughout by watercolours painted by Edmund Dulac for The Bells and Other Poems by Edgar Allan Poe, 1912.Poe, Edgar Allan is the author of 'Edgar Allan Poe - Edgar Allan Poe' with ISBN 9780517570104 and ISBN 0517570106.