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Annabel Lee - listen book free online

Edgar Poe was born in Boston on January 19, 1809. That makes him Capricorn, on the cusp of Aquarius. His parents were David and Elizabeth Poe. David was born in Baltimore on July 18, 1784. Elizabeth Arnold came to the U.S. from England in 1796 and married David Poe after her first husband died in 1805. They had three children, Henry, Edgar, and Rosalie. Annabel Lee' was the last poem Edgar Alla... Read More

To My Mother - listen book free online

Edgar Allan Poe regarded as the father of modern detective story, was an American poet, author and literary critic. He was born on 19th January 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts. His contribution to the genre of science fiction and horror won him great recognition and appreciation during his lifetime and after his death. He is also considered to be the first well-known American Author who attempted... Read More

For Annie - listen book free online

American writer, poet and critic Edgar Allan Poe is famous for his tales and poems of horror and mystery. His imaginative storytelling and tales of mystery and horror gave birth to the modern detective story. Many of Poe’s works became literary classics. Some aspects of Poe’s life, like his literature, is shrouded in mystery, and the lines between fact and fiction have been blurred substantiall... Read More

A Dream within a Dream - listen book free online

Edgar Allan Poe's short poem, A Dream Within a Dream, was published in 1849. The poem is divided into two stanzas, and the speaker's tone changes drastically from the first to the second. In the first stanza, the speaker acknowledges that people think he lives in a dream world but also suggests that everybody does. The narrator kisses the listener in parting. He tells the listener that he agree... Read More

The Bells - listen book free online

Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. The Bells was written by Poe in 1848, but it was not published until December 1849, some three months after his death. It is an irregular ode comprised of four numbered movements that vary in length, each one longer than its... Read More

Ulalume: A Ballad - listen book free online

Ulalume is the tale of the narrator and his soul, Psyche. On a lonely, gloomy October night, near Auber Lake and Weir Forest, the narrator wanders through the woods. His heart is volcanic, full of heat, and restless as the lava currents, which roll down Mount Yaanek. He talks seriously to himself, but he does not pay attention to the date or to the location, although both are highly significant... Read More

Not Long Ago the Write of These Lines - listen book free online

Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, editor, and literary critic. Poe never really knew his parents Elizabeth Arnold Poe, a British actress, and David Poe, Jr., an actor who was born in Baltimore. His father left the family early in Poe's life, and his mother passed away from tuberculosis when he was only three. Separated from his brother William and sister Rosalie, Poe went to live with Joh... Read More

The Raven - listen book free online

Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. He was an early pioneer in the genre of science fiction. Poe was fascinated by the science of his time, and he often wrote stories about new inventions. The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe is a narrative of a young man who is bereav... Read More

Eulalie - listen book free online

The mystery surrounding Edgar Allan Poe's death has led to many myths and urban legends. The reality is that no one knows for sure what happened during the last few days of his life. On September 30, he meant to go to New York but supposedly took the wrong train to Baltimore. On October 3, Poe was found at Gunner's Hall, a public house at 44 East Lombard Street, and was taken to the hospital. H... Read More

Dream-Land - listen book free online

Edgar Poe was born in Boston on January 19, 1809. That makes him Capricorn, on the cusp of Aquarius. His parents were David and Elizabeth Poe. David was born in Baltimore on July 18, 1784. Elizabeth Arnold came to the U.S. from England in 1796 and married David Poe after her first husband died in 1805. They had three children, Henry, Edgar, and Rosalie. Dream-Land is one of Edgar Allan Poe’s mo... Read More

The Conqueror Worm - listen book free online

The Conqueror Worm is a poem by Edgar Allan Poe about human mortality and the inevitability of death. An audience of angels gathers to watch a play. Mimes fly around the stage, seemingly as puppets driven by invisible forces, and the plot describes sin, madness, and horror. The crawling Conqueror Worm then appears, writing as it eats the mimes. The curtain falls, and the distressed angels affir... Read More

Sonnet: Silence - listen book free online

Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, editor, and literary critic. He is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States and of American literature as a whole, and he was one of the country's earliest practitioners of the short story. Poe never really knew his parents, Elizabeth Arnold Poe, a British actress, and David Poe, Jr., an actor who was born in Baltimore. His... Read More

The Haunted Palace - listen book free online

The Haunted Palace is a poem by Edgar Allan Poe. The 48-line poem was first released in the April 1839 issue of Nathan Brooks' American Museum magazine. This poem has a big shift after stanza four, so let's look at the poem before this point and after the shift in order to better keep track of things. Everything appears nice and happy in the first four stanzas. The poem begins with the speaker... Read More

Sonnet: To Zante - listen book free online

Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. Sometime in 1840, Edgar Poe joined George R. Graham as an editor for Graham's Magazine. During the two years that Poe worked for Graham's, he published his first detective story, "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" and challenged... Read More

Lenore - listen book free online

Lenore is a poem by the American author Edgar Allan Poe. Poe was born in Boston, the second child of actors David and Elizabeth "Eliza" Arnold Hopkins Poe. His father abandoned the family in 1810, and his mother died the following year. Thus orphaned, the child was taken in by John and Frances Allan of Richmond, Virginia. They never formally adopted him, but he was with them well into young adu... Read More

Israfel - listen book free online

Edgar Allan Poe self-published his first book, Tamerlane and Other Poems, in 1827. His second poetry collection, Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems, was published in 1829. As a critic at the Southern Literary Messenger in Richmond from 1835 to 1837, Poe published some of his own works in the magazine, including two parts of his only novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym. Israfel is a lyr... Read More

To Helen - listen book free online

Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, critic and editor best known for evocative short stories and poems that captured the imagination and interest of readers around the world. His imaginative storytelling and tales of mystery and horror gave birth to the modern detective story. Many of Poe’s works, including “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Fall of the House of Usher,” became literary cl... Read More

Fairy-Land - listen book free online

Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, editor, and literary critic. Whereas earlier critics predominantly concerned themselves with moral or ideological generalities, Poe focused his criticism on the specifics of style and construction that contributed to a work’s effectiveness or failure. In his own work, he demonstrated a brilliant command of language and technique as well as an inspired and... Read More

The Bowers Whereat, In Dreams I See - listen book free online

Edgar Allan Poe’s stature as a major figure in world literature is primarily based on his ingenious and profound short stories, poems, and critical theories, which established a highly influential rationale for the short form in both poetry and fiction. Regarded in literary histories and handbooks as the architect of the modern short story, Poe was also the principal forerunner of the “art for... Read More

The Lake - listen book free online

Edgar Allan Poe's notable verses range from the early masterpiece “To Helen” to the dark, mysterious “Ulalume.” From “The Raven,” which made him world-famous upon its publication in 1845, to “Annabel Lee,” the posthumously published eulogy for a maiden “in a kingdom by the sea.” Poe first published “The Lake” in his 1827 collection "Tamerlane and Other Poems," but it appeared again two years la... Read More