Complete Poems of Edgar Allan Poe. This item is unavailable.Complete Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

Hardcover with blue cardboard slipcase. Slipcase intact with fading discolorations to covers. Tan covers with red and blue design and gold lettering to spine. Book in very good condition with slight fading to spine. Previous owners name to ffep. Pages clean and unmarked with some illustrations. Walt Whitman wrote, "Poe's verses illustrate an intense faculty for technical and abstract beauty, with the rhyming art to excess, an incorrigible propensity toward nocturnal themes, a demoniac undertone behind every page.brilliant and dazzling, but with no heat.I wanted, and still want for poetry, the clear sun and the fresh air blowing---strength and power of health, not of delirium---always the background of the ternal moralities.".