This magnificently decorated edition presents Edgar Allan Poe’s complete poems in addition to his most important critical essays on poetry. Featuring such immortal works as The Raven and The Bells, the book meticulously re-creates the famed 1900 Endymion edition. Poe’s dark obsessions and fascination with the supernatural find a perfect match in the powerful and haunting imagery of artist W. Heath Robinson. AUTHOR: The father of the detective novel and an innovator in the genre of science fiction, Edgar Allan Poe (1809 49) made his living as America’s first great literary critic. Today he is best remembered for his short stories and poems, haunting works of horror and mystery that remain popular around the world. W. Heath Robinson (1872 1944) illustrated more than 60 books, including Bill the Minder, The Giant Crab and Other Tales from Old India, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, and The Water Babies as well as several volumes of stories and poems by Rudyard Kipling.