Poems

Overview:

  • Title: Poems
  • Author: Edgar A. Poe
  • Year: 1831
  • Publisher: Elam Bliss
  • Price: $0.75
  • Pages: 124
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Collection
  • Title Reference: Sonnet—To Science
  • Notes:
    • Information primarily from Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore. See this and this.
    • price uncertain: "It apparently sold for 75 cents".
    • "Letter to Mr. __ ____" begins "Dear B____" and is thought to be written to Eliam Bliss.
    • The "Introduction" in this collection is a significant, longer revision of the earlier "Preface" and later "Romance".
    • "Sonnet — To Science" was untitled in this collection (as in its earlier publication) and was not assigned a title until later.
    • "Al Aaraaf" was misspelled "Al Araaf" in some copies (along with p. 105 being misnumbered 150, and other minor errors), corrected in others.