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I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand—
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep—while I weep! - Edgar Allan Poe Attribution: Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849), U.S. poet. A Dream within a Dream (l. 1–7). . . Complete Poems and Selected Essays [Edgar Allan Poe]. Richard Gray, ed. (1993) Everyman.

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Edgar Allan Poe

Titles by Edgar Allan Poe:

• Annabel Lee
• Classic American Short Stories
• Lenore
• Ligeia
• Murders in the Rue Morgue
• Sonnet—To Science
• Stories of Edgar Allan Poe
• The Bells
• The Best of Poe
• The Black Cat
• The Cask of Amontillado
• The City in the Sea
• The Fall of the House of Usher
• The Gold Bug
• The Masque of the Red Death
• The Pit and the Pendulum
• The Purloined Letter
• The Raven
• The Tell-Tale Heart
• Ulalume

Salem on History:

• Edgar Allan Poe

Critical Companions:

• Poe, Edgar Allan (1809 - 1849) (Gothic Literature)

Encyclopedia:

• Poe, Edgar Allan (The Oxford Companion to English Literature)
• Poe, Edgar Allan (The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare)
• Poe, Edgar Allan (The Oxford Companion to American Literature)

Salem on Literature:

• Edgar Allan Poe (Magill Book Reviews)
• The Essays of Edgar Allan Poe (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)
• Edgar Allan Poe (Cyclopedia of World Authors, Fourth Revised Edition)
• Edgar Allan Poe (Critical Survey of Poetry, Second Revised Edition)
• Edgar Allan Poe (Critical Survey of Short Fiction, Second Revised Edition)
• Edgar Allan Poe (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
• Edgar Allan Poe (Magill’s Choice: 100 Masters of Mystery and Detective Fiction)
• Edgar Allan Poe (Dictionary of World Biography: The 19th Century)

Literary Criticism:

• The Cask of Amontillado Edgar Allan Poe (Short Story Criticism)
• The Tell-Tale Heart, Edgar Allan Poe (Short Story Criticism)
• The Fall of the House of Usher Poe, Edgar Allan (Short Story Criticism)
• Poe, Edgar Allan (Short Story Criticism)
• The Raven, Edgar Allan Poe (Poetry)
• Poe, Edgar Allan (Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism)
• The Fall of the House of Usher, Edgar Allan Poe (Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism)
• The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, Edgar Allan Poe (Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism)
• The Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Allan Poe (Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism)
• Poe, Edgar Allan (Contemporary Literary Criticism)

Calendar of Literary Facts:

• Edgar Allan Poe publishes Eureka
• Edgar Allan Poe publishes The Raven and Other Poems
• Edgar Allan Poe publishes The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, of Nantucket
• Edgar Allan Poe is born
• Edgar Allan Poe dies