I don't mean to be ad hominem, but unless the book is comprised of a list of surprising facts, don't bother buying it. It's read like a description of a bowling match! Seriously! Avoid Ken Maxon as a narrator. I mean come on!!! The first poem is the Raven and forget about it sounding like the sad and soul stirring piece of work. Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works includes notes and footnotes for poetry buffs, students and those wanting to delve deeper into.
Every sentence ends on an upwinding inflection like he's advertising the best deal in home supplies or an electronics store. The Complete Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe features his famous poems 'The Raven', 'A Dream within a Dream', as well as essays on 'Old English Poetry'. I love Audiobooks and Audible has changed my life, but who in their right mind would have Ken Maxon deliver Poe's poetry?!?!? Ken Maxon's reading sounds like something typed into a 1990's speech synthesizer. What disappointed you about The Complete Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe? 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.Oh the absolute horror! And I don't mean Poe. Such verses have been gathered from printed or manuscript sources during a research extending over many years. 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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