title: The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe (Modern Library)
author:  Edgar Allan Poe 
description: Poe was one of the most original writers in the history of American letters, a genius who was tragically misunderstood in his lifetime. He was a seminal figure in the development of science fiction and the detective story, and exerted a great influence on Dostoyevsky, Arthur Conan Doyle, Jules Verne, and Charles Baudelaire, who championed him long before Poe was appreciated in his own country. Baudelaire's enthusiasm brought Poe a wide audience in Europe, and his writing came to have enormous importance for modern French literature. This edition includes his most well-known works--"The Raven," "The Pit and the Pendulum," "Annabel Lee," "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Murders in the Rue Morgue"--as well as less-familiar stories, poems, and essays.
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  [From the Pages of The Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan
  Poe](index_split_002.html#filepos12086)
  
  [Title Page](index_split_003.html#filepos17254)
  
  [Copyright Page](index_split_004.html#filepos17410)
  
  [Edgar Allan Poe](index_split_005.html#filepos20407)
  
  [The World of Edgar Allan Poe](index_split_006.html#filepos25563)
  
  [Introduction](index_split_007.html#filepos41652)
  
    
  
  [POEMS](index_split_009.html#filepos128808)
  
  [The Lake—To](index_split_010.html#filepos128931)
  
  [Sonnet—To Science](index_split_011.html#filepos130105)
  
  [Fairy-land](index_split_012.html#filepos131033)
  
  [Israfel](index_split_013.html#filepos132708)
  
  [To Helen](index_split_014.html#filepos135019)
  
  [The Sleeper](index_split_015.html#filepos135898)
  
  [The Valley of Unrest](index_split_016.html#filepos138745)
  
  [The City in the Sea](index_split_017.html#filepos140038)
  
  [The Coliseum](index_split_018.html#filepos142552)
  
  [Sonnet—Silence](index_split_019.html#filepos145298)
  
  [Dream-Land](inde