![]() ![]() ![]() In addition to the new poetical matter included in this volume, attention should, also, be solicited on behalf of the notes, which will be found to contain much matter, interesting both from biographical and bibliographical points of view. Yet my senses are bewildered, Charmion, with the keenness of their perception of the new. The wild sickness and the terrible darkness have left me, and I hear no longer that mad, rushing, horrible sound, like the voice of many waters. Such verses have been gathered from printed or manuscript sources during a research extending over many years. The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion Eiros: True, I feel no stupor, none at all. Besides the poems thus alluded to, this volume will be found to contain many additional pieces and extra stanzas, nowhere else published or included in Poe's works. Most, if not all, of the specimens issued in my articles have since been reprinted by different editors and publishers, but the present is the first occasion on which all the pieces referred to have been garnered into one sheaf. In 1874 I began drawing attention to the fact that unknown and unreprinted poetry by Edgar Poe was in existence. Until recently, all editions, whether American or English, of Poe's poems have been verbatim reprints of the first posthumous collection, published at New York in 1850. ![]() In placing before the public this collection of Edgar Poe's poetical works, it is requisite to point out in what respects it differs from, and is superior to, the numerous collections which have preceded it. ![]()
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