Henry Carter Hull

Contains selections of poetry from three volumes of Dickinson's verse between 1890 and 1896.

"Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore." With that undying line Edgar Allan Poe ensured his immortality in the annals of American letters. What student of literature or lover of poetry is not familiar with his poem "The Raven," and the heartbreaking message implicit in its melancholy refrain? "The Raven" is by far Poe's best-known poem and it is one of more than forty to be found in The Raven and Other Poems , a volume that collects the best of Poe's exercises...

The influence of the gothic and its atmosphere of gloom and decay have inspired classics of horror and the supernatural for more than two centuries. The Phantom of the Opera and Other Gothic Tales collects twenty-five classic stories shaped by gothic's mood of menace and the macabre. In addition to the world-famous title novel, about a "ghost" who terrorizes the personnel of the Paris Opera House, the book includes Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto,...

"No writer portrayed America's Jazz Age as vividly as F. Scott Fitzgerald. In his effervescent tales of ingenues on the prowl for husbands, Ivy League heirs en route to futures of idle entitlement, and endless alcohol-fueled dance parties at ritzy country clubs, he limned a culture giddy with excess and as reckless as it was refined. Gifted with remarkable powers of observation and a witty way with words, Fitzgerald wrote stories that seem as fresh...

"The poems selected for A Treasury of Classic Poetry span nearly 500 years, from the sixteenth to the early twentieth century. More than 300 of the best-loved poems in the English language are featured, representing more than fifty of the world's greatest poets, including: Lord Byron Emily Dickinson T.S. Eliot Robert Frost John Keats Edna St. Vincent Millay John Milton Edgar Allan Poe William Shakespeare Percy Bysshe Shelley Wallace Stevens Walt Whitman...