POETICAL WORKS

OF

EDGAR ALLAN POE

EDITED BY

JAMES HANNAY, Esq.

With Illustrations by

E. H. WEHNERT, JAMES GODWIN, HARRISON WEIR,
F. W. HULME, AND ANELAY

Complete Edition

LONDON

CHARLES GRIFFIN AND COMPANY

STATIONERS' HALL COURT

ΤΟ

DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI

I Dedicate

THIS EDITION OF POE'S POEMS

WITH THE HIGHEST ADMIRATION AND WITH
BROTHERLY REGARD.

J. H.

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PREFACE.

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THESE trifles are collected and republished chiefly with a view to their redemption from the many improvements to which they have been subjected while going at random the "rounds of the press." I am naturally anxious that what I have written should circulate as I wrote it, if it circulate at all. defence of my own taste, nevertheless, it is incumbent upon me to say that I think nothing in this volume of much value to the public, or very creditable to myself. Events not to be controlled have prevented me from making, at any time, any serious effort in what, under happier circumstances, would have been the field of my choice. With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not -they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.

E. A. P.