Edgar Allan Poe. Works. Virginia edition. J. A. Harrison, editor. 1902. 17 vols. Another edition. E. C. Stedman and G. E. Woodberry, editors, 1894–1895. 10 vols. Best single-volume editions are: J. H. Whitty, editor, 1911, and Killis Campbell, editor, 1917. Poe’s chief works appeared originally in book form as follows: Tamerlane and Other Poems, 1827; Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems, 1829; Poems, 1831; Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, 1838; The Conchologist’s First Book, 1839; Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, 1839; The Raven, and Other Poems, 1845; Tales, 1845; Eureka: a Prose Poem, 1848; The Literati, 1850.
Bibliography
The best is by Killis Campbell in the Cambridge History of American Literature, Vol. II, pp. 452–468. See also Vol. X, Stedman-Woodberry edition, and Vol. XVI, J. A. Harrison edition.
Biography and Criticism
The standard life of Poe is by George E. Woodberry. 1884.
Baskervill, W. M. Southern Writers.
Beaudelaire, Charles. Edgar Poe, sa vie et ses œvres. 1856.
Brownell, W. C. American Prose Masters. 1909.
Campbell, Killis. Edgar Allan Poe. Cambridge History of American Literature, Vol. II, Bk. II, chap. xiv.
Campbell, Killis. Introduction to Edition of Poems. 1917.