Great book, love this author and how they can keep my attention to the end! The plot is well developed, characters are believable and they obviously paid attention to detail to make the story worth your time to read.

The book has beautiful art. However, because of this I couldn't read the font very well. Hence, I could not appreciate the poems of this prolific writer as much as I would liked.

I loved Poe's works growing up and quickly devoured his entire collection. A must read for all young adults beginning to experience classic works.

I dipped in and out of this collection of work over a period of time.
The description "mash up" fits it quite perfectly as its a diverse collection that contains essays, letters and poetry.
His poetry is passionate but it has to be, he is writing deeply of the emotions that comes with relationships, friendships, love, faith and loss.
The fabulous illustrations add a depth to the messages he is trying to get across.
I book i would recommend.
My thanks go to the publishers and Netgalley in providing this arc in return for a honest review.

I am a bit bias since Edgar Allan Poe is one of my favorite poets. I think this is a really good mash up of his works. The illustrations throughout were honestly really nice. I think it added more to this collection.

DNF. Might come back to read these at a later time.

Even though I love Poe’s stories I didn’t enjoy his poetry very much. It may have been this particular eARC format but I found it very hard to read. The art was beautiful!

Poe is a great place for students to start with horror (along with Lovecraft, of course), and this book contains favorites like "The Raven" and "Annabel Lee" that will get them started. The illustrations enhance the words. I always imagine Poe being read aloud by a dramatic actor dressed in black, as I once saw it done.... I think that my older students would enjoy this book.

This isn't my first time reading Edgar Allan Poe. I've been a fan for years and always enjoy his works. I've already read most of the works in this book but still enjoy re-reading the ones I've read before and the new ones. It's filled with lots of his popular works like, "The Raven" and "Annabel Lee". This is a great starter book if you wanna give him a try, between his writing and the art mashes well. Artist W. Heath Robinson did illustrations for this book, in the ARC I got didn't have much of the art but what I did see was beautiful.

Overall this is a good book to read, I wanna get a physical copy because I'm sure it will be very pretty.

I received a copy of this book from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.
I love Edgar Allen Poe, and I was happy to see a book that focused on his poems as most collections of his works focus mainly on his stories.
I was not a fan of how this book was set up. It looked at though it had been pulled out an antique book (which normally I would love!) But, this one looked as though it had been photocopied from another book so the words were blurry to the point of illegibility. It was a VERY difficult read in this respect! I know that I'm not supposed to write a review on the set up like this, and I did send a note to the publisher about this, but it's very hard to write a review on content that I have read before and could barely read this time! Hopefully they change this set up and others can correct this review with a better opinion!!

While I am a big fan of Edgar Allan Poe, I must admit to being disappointed with this version. I was given an ebook version, and it was partial only. It only showed the first 5% of the book, and the rest was advertisement for Dover. What little I saw I liked, but only had a few poems. If this is the online version I would stick to a physical copy of the book only.

I love Poe and this is a great collection of his work.

This collection of Edgar Allan Poe poems also includes a letter as well as essays on poetics and philosophy. The most well known of his works are featured in the beginning leaving readers to wade through more unknown and less quality works. That is not to say that the work is shoddy, some poems capture a beautiful pictures and some didn't affect me in any way.
I liked the art in the book the most. It goes well with the material. While this is not my favorited illustrated version of "The Raven" or "The Bells", the art ads so much to poems I have never read nor really understood.
After doing research for many of these, Poe seemed to fall in loved all the time and wrote love poems to every pretty girl in his site. Never thought of this gothic writer as such a lovely dovey kind of person.

Gorgeous collection that should be a must for Poe fans.

I hate to give this such a low rating because I usually really like Poe ...but apparently I just like his stories and not his poems. I am not really one for poetry much in general. I keep hoping that some day I am going to have that eureka moment where I finally am able to understand and comprehend what is happening in most poetry, but it doesn't seem like it's ever going to actually happen. I decided to try this book anyway because like I said, I enjoy Poe, and honestly I thought I knew more of his poems than I did.

The only poems I recognized in this edition were The Raven [of course] and Annabelle Lee. There were a few other poems I thought were okay but mostly I just found it to be overall confusing [my default poetry state]. There were a lot of weird long ones towards the end and also a ton that were kind of like love letters [all titled "to ____"] and those got really old really fast. The illustrations were great, although they didn't often help me understand what was going on, but they were still nice to look at.

Also I know this was a reprint of an edition from the early 1900s but some of the formatting seemed weird to me [not all the poems had headers, some would start in the middle of the page, lots of entirely blank pages etc] so I feel like there could have been some rearranging and updating. Although it's also possible it would look better in an actual book with facing pages instead of an ARC PDF where I'm viewing a single page at a time so I'm not sure entirely.

The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
by Edgar Allan Poe
Dover Publications
Poetry
Pub Date 13 Dec 2017
I am reviewing a copy of The Poems Of Edgar Allen Poe Through Dover Publications And Netgalley:
Edgar Allan Poe rightfully embedded his name into literary history, whether it be his dark tales of horror, or his poetry that just seemed to flow off the page.
His poems speak of love, faith, friendship, loss. His words are passionate and everlasting. In fact Edgar Allan Poe is credited with changing the course of modern literature, though poetry was his first love.
With poems such as The Raven, and Annabelle Lee, this collection shines in its beauty.
I give The Poems Of Edgar Allan Poe five out of five stars!
Happy Reading!

If you love poetry and Poe, then you will enjoy this book. As an added bonus, the illustrations magnify the beauty of his words.

I  recieved a free digital copy of this book from Netgalley for an honest review.

Oh, Poe. This is a beautiful collection of poems and illustrations. Even though my copy wasn't the full book, you get enough content to see how great it is. Can't wait to pick up a copy or two.

Just when you think your love of E. A. Poe's poetry could not get any deeper, this beautiful volume comes along. With illustrations and design the book sings the poetry off the page. If you love the poetry this book is a must purchase that you will not regret.

A moody, passionate collection from the O.G. (original goth). The Edwardian-era illustrations are gorgeous - the style reminds me of some famous tarot art (Morgan-Greer, and Palladini's Aquarian), which adds another flavor of mysticism to the poems - but I wish there were more.

The end of the book was a little confusing, as it switched from Poe's poetry to part of a play and then some essays, but it was interesting nonetheless.