Edgar Allan Poe - Great American Poets Author:Geoffrey Moore 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 e... more »motion 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.« less