6 - Evening Star

Tamerlane and other poems
by Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by Denis Daly and Alexa Sheppard

This collection represents Poe's earliest attempts at writing verse, and was first published in 1827. The young Poe was so bashful about his ilterary ability that the author is described only as "a Bostonian."

Contents

Introduction

Tamerlane

Fugitive pieces
To - -
Dreams
Visit of the Dead
Evening star
Imitation
Stanzas
A Dream
The Happiest Day
The Lake

In the first and longest poem, the warrior-emperor Tamerlane, who is better known to history as Timur, while lying on his death bed muses which is the worthier cause: the conquest of empire or the pursuit of love. This original version contains 406 lines, but the poem was later extensively revised, and published in 1845 in a better-known version which contains only 234 lines.

Of the Fugitive Pieces, three poems - "Dreams", "Imitation" and "The Lake" - were republished in later collections.

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