Although best known for his short stories, Edgar Allan Poe was by nature and choice a poet. From his exquisite lyric 'To Helen' to his immortal masterpieces, 'Annabel Lee' 'The Bells' and 'The Raven' Poe stands beside the celebrated English romantic poets Shelley, Byron, and Keats, and his haunting, sensuous poetic vision profoundly influenced the Victorian giants Swinburne, Tennyson, and Rossetti. This book is carefully illustrated by the famous illustrator and cartoonist William Heath Robinson. William Heath Robinson (1872-1944) is an artist whose work, whether in his well known humorous drawings or his illustrations for Kipling, Shakespeare or children's stories, is integral to British cultural heritage.This book includes among others poems by Poe : and "Alone and " (1875) and "Annabel Lee and " (1849) and "The Bells and " (1849) and "The City in the Sea and " (1831) and "The Conqueror Worm and " (1843) and "Dream-Land and " (1844) and "A Dream Within A Dream and " (1850) and "Eldorado and " (1849) and "For Annie and " (1849) and "The Haunted Palace and " (1839) and "The Raven and " (1845) and "The Sleeper and " (1831) and "To The River and " (1829) and "Spirits of the Dead and " (1829) and "A Valentine and " (1850) and "The Valley of Unrest and " (1845)and many more poems.