Edgar Allan Poe

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1 f you think that poetry has to be sweet and nice and romantic, think again. Step into the dark world of Edgár Allan Poe. Well known for his spine-tingling, spooky stories that are even more chilling than today's horror movies, Poe alsó wrote poems that expressed the shadowy regions of his mind. More than twenty of his poems and selections from his stories, accompanied by mood-setting, full-color drawings and notes that make his work easier to understand, are creaky doors opening the way into the many-chambered passage of this great American writer's talents. Tremble in fear as The Rávert pays a nighttime visit to a grieving man. Feel the sadness of an orphaned child who is Alone. Follow the cycle of life as it is called out in the sounds of The Bells. To Helen Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicaean barks of yore, That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary, way-worn wanderer bore To his own native shore. Sometimes gruesome, occasionally lighthearted, but always fascinating,... Tovább

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1 f you think that poetry has to be sweet and nice and romantic, think again. Step into the dark world of Edgár Allan Poe. Well known for his spine-tingling, spooky stories that are even more chilling than today's horror movies, Poe alsó wrote poems that expressed the shadowy regions of his mind. More than twenty of his poems and selections from his stories, accompanied by mood-setting, full-color drawings and notes that make his work easier to understand, are creaky doors opening the way into the many-chambered passage of this great American writer's talents. Tremble in fear as The Rávert pays a nighttime visit to a grieving man. Feel the sadness of an orphaned child who is Alone. Follow the cycle of life as it is called out in the sounds of The Bells. To Helen Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicaean barks of yore, That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary, way-worn wanderer bore To his own native shore. Sometimes gruesome, occasionally lighthearted, but always fascinating, Edgár Allan Poe's work gives the reader a wonderful opportunity to see how poetry can reveal a person's deepest thoughts. On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy Naiad airs have brought me home To the glory that was Greece, And the grandeur that was Rome. Lo! in yon brilliant window-niche How statue-like I see thee stand, The agate lamp within thy hand! Ah, Psyche, from the regions which Are Holy-Land! ff Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. ISBN 0-60^-0650-3 978080690820590000 Vissza