The result has not been altogether satisfactory. In addition to the new poetical matter included in this volume, attention should, also, be solicited on behalf of the notes, which will be found to contain much matter, interesting both from biographical and bibliographical points of view.ĭuring the last few years every incident in the life of Edgar Poe has been subjected to microscopic investigation. Such verses have been gathered from printed or manuscript sources during a research extending over many years. Besides the poems thus alluded to, this volume will be found to contain many additional pieces and extra stanzas, nowhere else published or included in Poe's works. Most, if not all, of the specimens issued in my articles have since been reprinted by different editors and publishers, but the present is the first occasion on which all the pieces referred to have been garnered into one sheaf. In 1874 I began drawing attention to the fact that unknown and unreprinted poetry by Edgar Poe was in existence. Until recently, all editions, whether American or English, of Poe's poems have been verbatim reprints of the first posthumous collection, published at New York in 1850. In placing before the public this collection of Edgar Poe's poetical works, it is requisite to point out in what respects it differs from, and is superior to, the numerous collections which have preceded it. To – – ( The Bowers whereat, in dreams, I see)
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