# Timeline

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Title | Date | Date | First published in | Notes
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"Poetry" | 1824 | 240101 | Never published in Poe's lifetime | [20]
"O, Tempora! O, Mores!" | 1825 | 250101 | Never published in Poe's lifetime | Not authenticated,[21] attribution to Poe is likely incorrect[22]
"To Margaret" | circa 1827 | 270101 | Never published in Poe's lifetime | [27]
"A Dream" | July 1827 | 270701 | Tamerlane and Other Poems | [24]
"Dreams" | July 1827 | 270701 | Tamerlane and Other Poems | [25]
"Evening Star" | July 1827 | 270701 | Tamerlane and Other Poems | [23]
"Imitation" | July 1827 | 270701 | Tamerlane and Other Poems | [24]
"Song" | July 1827 | 270701 | Tamerlane and Other Poems | [24]
"Spirits of the Dead" | July 1827 | 270701 | Tamerlane and Other Poems | [23]
"Stanzas" | July 1827 | 270701 | Tamerlane and Other Poems | [26]
"Tamerlane" | July 1827 | 270701 | Tamerlane and Other Poems | [23]
"The Lake" | July 1827 | 270701 | Tamerlane and Other Poems | [23]
"The Happiest Day" | September 15, 1827 | 270915 | The North American | [24]
"Al Aaraaf" | 1829 | 290101 | Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems | [24]
"Alone" | 1829 | 290101 | Never published in Poe's lifetime | [28]
"An Acrostic" | 1829 | 290101 | Never published in Poe's lifetime | [24]
"Elizabeth" | 1829 | 290101 | Never published in Poe's lifetime | [33]
"Fairy-Land" | 1829 | 290101 | Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems | [24]
"Romance" | 1829 | 290101 | Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems | [24]
"To — — " | 1829 | 290101 | Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems | Begins "The bowers whereat, in dreams..."[31]
"To — — " | 1829 | 290101 | Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems | Begins "Should my early life seem..."[31]
"To Isaac Lea" | circa 1829 | 290101 | Never published in Poe's lifetime | [29]
"To Science" | 1829 | 290101 | Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems | [32]
"To The River — — " | 1829 | 290101 | Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems | [30]
"A Paean" | 1831 | 310101 | Poems by Edgar A. Poe | [34]
"Israfel" | 1831 | 310101 | Poems by Edgar A. Poe | [34]
"The City in the Sea" | 1831 | 310101 | Poems by Edgar A. Poe | [34]
"The Sleeper" | 1831 | 310101 | Poems by Edgar A. Poe | [34]
"The Valley of Unrest" | 1831 | 310101 | Poems by Edgar A. Poe | [34]
"To Helen" | 1831 | 310101 | Poems by Edgar A. Poe | [33]
"Metzengerstein" | January 14, 1832 | 320114 | Philadelphia Saturday Courier | First published anonymously with the subtitle "A Tale in Imitation of the German"[13]
"The Duc de L'Omelette" | March 3, 1832 | 320303 | Philadelphia Saturday Courier | Originally "The Duke of l'Omelette"[63]
"A Tale of Jerusalem" | June 9, 1832 | 320609 | Philadelphia Saturday Courier | [64]
"Loss of Breath" | November 10, 1832 | 321110 | Philadelphia Saturday Courier | Originally "A Decided Loss"[64]
"Bon-Bon" | December 1, 1832 | 321201 | Philadelphia Saturday Courier | Originally "The Bargain Lost"[64]
"Enigma" | February 2, 1833 | 330202 | Baltimore Saturday Visiter | [35]
"Serenade" | April 20, 1833 | 330420 | Baltimore Saturday Visiter | [38]
"Fanny" | May 18, 1833 | 330518 | Baltimore Saturday Visiter | [36]
"MS. Found in a Bottle" | October 19, 1833 | 331019 | Baltimore Saturday Visiter | [65]
"The Coliseum" | October 26, 1833 | 331026 | Baltimore Saturday Visiter | [37]
"The Assignation" | January 1834 | 340101 | Godey's Lady's Book | Originally "The Visionary", published anonymously[66]
"To One in Paradise" | January 1834 | 340101 | Godey's Lady's Book | [30]
"Berenice" | March 1835 | 350301 | Southern Literary Messenger | [39]
"Hymn" | April 1835 | 350401 | Southern Literary Messenger | [39]
"Morella" | April 1835 | 350401 | Southern Literary Messenger | [39]
"Lionizing" | May 1835 | 350501 | Southern Literary Messenger | Subtitle: "A Tale"[39]
"Lionizing" | May 1835 | 350501 | Southern Literary Messenger | Subtitle: "A Tale"[39]
"The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall" | June 1835 | 350601 | Southern Literary Messenger | [39]
"King Pest" | September 1835 | 350901 | Southern Literary Messenger | Originally "King Pest the First", published anonymously[67]
"Shadow — A Parable" | September 1835 | 350901 | Southern Literary Messenger | Published anonymously[67]
"To Elizabeth" | September 1835 | 350901 | Southern Literary Messenger | Republished as "To F — — s S. O — — d" in 1845[33]
"May Queen Ode" | circa 1836 | 360101 | Never published in Poe's lifetime | [40]
"Spiritual Song" | 1836 | 360101 | Never published in Poe's lifetime | [41]
"Four Beasts in One — The Homo-Cameleopard" | March 1836 | 360301 | Southern Literary Messenger | Originally "Epimanes"[68]
"Latin Hymn" | March 1836 | 360301 | Southern Literary Messenger | [42]
"Bridal Ballad" | January 1837 | 370101 | Southern Literary Messenger | Originally published as "Ballad"[43]
"To Zante" | January 1837 | 370101 | Southern Literary Messenger | [32]
"Mystification" | June 1837 | 370601 | American Monthly Magazine | Originally "Von Jung, the Mystific"[69]
"Silence — A Fable" | 1838 | 380101 | Baltimore Book | Originally "Siope — A Fable"[60]
"Ligeia" | September 1838 | 380901 | Baltimore American Museum | Republished in the February 15, 1845, issue of the New York World, included the poem "The Conqueror Worm" as words written by Ligeia on her death-bed[70]
"A Predicament" | November 1838 | 381101 | Baltimore American Museum | Companion to "How to Write a Blackwood Article," originally "The Scythe of Time"[71]
"How to Write a Blackwood Article" | November 1838 | 381101 | Baltimore American Museum | An introduction to "A Predicament"[71]
"The Haunted Palace" | April 1839 | 390401 | American Museum | [44]
"The Devil in the Belfry" | May 18, 1839 | 390519 | Saturday Chronicle and Mirror of the Times | [72]
"The Man That Was Used Up" | August 1839 | 390801 | Burton's Gentleman's Magazine | [73]
"The Fall of the House of Usher" | September 1839 | 390901 | Burton's Gentleman's Magazine | [74]
"William Wilson" | October 1839 | 391001 | The Gift: A Christmas and New Year's Present for 1840 | [75]
"The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion" | December 1839 | 391201 | Burton's Gentleman's Magazine | [75]
"Why the Little Frenchman Wears His Hand in a Sling" | 1840 | 400101 | Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque | [76]
"Silence–A Sonnet" | January 4, 1840 | 400104 | Saturday Courier | [45]
"The Business Man" | February 1840 | 400201 | Burton's Gentleman's Magazine | Originally "Peter Pendulum"[75]
"The Man of the Crowd" | December 1840 | 401201 | Graham's Magazine | [77]
"The Murders in the Rue Morgue" | April 1841 | 410401 | Graham's Magazine | [16]
"The Oval Portrait" | April 1842 | 410401 | Graham's Magazine | Originally "Life in Death"[82]
"A Descent into the Maelström" | May 1841 | 410501 | Graham's Magazine | [76]
"The Island of the Fay" | June 1841 | 410601 | Graham's Magazine | [76]
"The Colloquy of Monos and Una" | August 1841 | 410801 | Graham's Magazine | [78]
"Eleonora" | Fall 1841 | 410901 | The Gift for 1842 | [80]
"Never Bet the Devil Your Head" | September 1841 | 410901 | Graham's Magazine | Subtitled "A Tale with a Moral"[79]
"Three Sundays in a Week" | November 27, 1841 | 411127 | Saturday Evening Post | Originally "A Succession of Sundays"[81]
"The Masque of the Red Death" | May 1842 | 420501 | Graham's Magazine | Originally "The Mask of the Red Death"[83]
"The Landscape Garden" | October 1842 | 421001 | Snowden's Ladies' Companion | Later incorporated into "The Domain of Arnheim"[84]
"The Mystery of Marie Rogêt" | November 1842, December 1842, February 1843 (serialized)[69] | 421101 | Snowden's Ladies' Companion | Originally subtitled "A Sequel to 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue'"[85]
"The Pit and the Pendulum" | 1842–1843 | 421201 | The Gift: A Christmas and New Year's Present | [86]
"The Conqueror Worm" | January 1843 | 430101 | Graham's Magazine | [47]
"The Tell-Tale Heart" | January 1843 | 430101 | The Pioneer | [87]
"Lenore" | February 1843 | 430201 | The Pioneer | [48]
"Lines on Joe Locke" | February 28, 1843 | 430228 | Saturday Museum | [46]
"The Gold-Bug" | June 1843 | 430601 | Dollar Newspaper | [88]
"The Black Cat" | August 19, 1843 | 430819 | United States Saturday Post | [89]
"Diddling" | October 14, 1843 | 431014 | Philadelphia Saturday Courier | Originally "Raising the Wind; or, Diddling Considered as One of the Exact Sciences"[90]
"A Campaign Song" | 1844 | 440101 | Never published in Poe's lifetime | [49]
"The Spectacles" | March 27, 1844 | 440327 | Dollar Newspaper | [91]
"A Tale of the Ragged Mountains" | April 1844 | 440401 | Godey's Lady's Book | [91]
"Dream-Land" | June 1844 | 440601 | Graham's Magazine | [47]
"The Premature Burial" | July 31, 1844 | 440731 | Dollar Newspaper | [92]
"Mesmeric Revelation" | August 1844 | 440801 | Columbian Magazine | [93]
"The Oblong Box" | September 1844 | 440901 | Godey's Lady's Book | [94]
"The Angel of the Odd" | October 1844 | 441001 | Columbian Magazine | Subtitled "An Extravaganza"[95]
"Thou Art the Man" | November 1844 | 441101 | Godey's Lady's Book | [94]
"The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq." | December 1844 | 441201 | Southern Literary Messenger | [94]
"The Purloined Letter" | 1844–1845 | 441201 | The Gift: A Christmas and New Year's Present | [96]
"Epigram for Wall Street" | January 23, 1845 | 450123 | Evening Mirror | [52]
"The Raven" | February 1845 | 450201 | American Review: A Whig Journal | [53]
"The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade" | February 1845 | 450201 | Godey's Lady's Book | Meant as a sequel to One Thousand and One Nights[97]
"Some Words with a Mummy" | April 1845 | 450401 | American Review: A Whig Journal | [98]
"To F — — " | April 1845 | 450401 | Broadway Journal | Republished as "To Frances" in the September 6, 1845, issue of the Broadway Journal[33]
"Impromptu. To Kate Carol" | April 26, 1845 | 450426 | Broadway Journal | [50]
"The Power of Words" | June 1845 | 450601 | Democratic Review | [99]
"Eulalie" | July 1845 | 450701 | American Review: A Whig Journal | [51]
"The Imp of the Perverse" | July 1845 | 450701 | Graham's Magazine | [100]
"The Divine Right of Kings" | October 1845 | 451001 | Graham's Magazine | [54]
"The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether" | November 1845 | 451101 | Graham's Magazine | [101]
"The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar" | December 1845 | 451201 | The American Review | Originally "The Facts of M. Valdemar's Case"[102]
"The Sphinx" | January 1846 | 460101 | Arthur's Ladies Magazine | [103]
"A Valentine" | February 21, 1846 | 460221 | Evening Mirror | Originally published as "To Her Whose Name Is Written Below"[55]
"The Cask of Amontillado" | November 1846 | 461101 | Godey's Lady's Book | [104]
"Beloved Physician" | 1847 | 470101 | Never published in Poe's lifetime | Incomplete[56]
"Deep in Earth" | 1847 | 470101 | Never published in Poe's lifetime | Incomplete[57]
"The Domain of Arnheim" | March 1847 | 470301 | Columbian Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine | Expansion of previous story "The Landscape Garden"[105]
"To M. L. S — — (1847)" | March 13, 1847 | 470313 | The Home Journal | [33]
"Ulalume" | December 1847 | 471201 | American Whig Review | [58]
"Lines on Ale" | 1848 | 480101 | Never published in Poe's lifetime | [59]
"An Enigma" | March 1848 | 480301 | Union Magazine of Literature and Art | [58]
"To Marie Louise" | March 1848 | 480301 | Columbian Magazine | [60]
"To Helen" | November 1848 | 481101 | Sartain's Union Magazine | [33]
"The Light-House" | 1849 | 490101 | - | (never published in Poe's lifetime)
"Mellonta Tauta" | February 1849 | 490201 | Godey's Lady's Book | [106]
"Hop-Frog" | March 17, 1849 | 490317 | Flag of Our Union | Subtitled "Or, The Eight Chained Ourang-Outangs"[58]
"A Dream Within A Dream" | March 31, 1849 | 490331 | The Flag of Our Union | [58]
"Von Kempelen and His Discovery" | April 14, 1849 | 490414 | Flag of Our Union | [58]
"Eldorado" | April 21, 1849 | 490421 | Flag of Our Union | [61]
"For Annie" | April 28, 1849 | 490428 | Flag of Our Union | [58]
"X-ing a Paragrab" | May 12, 1849 | 490512 | Flag of Our Union | [107]
"Landor's Cottage" | June 9, 1849 | 490609 | Flag of Our Union | Originally "Landor's Cottage: A Pendant to 'The Domain of Arnheim'"[108]
"To My Mother" | July 7, 1849 | 490707 | Flag of Our Union | [30]
"Annabel Lee" | October 9, 1849 | 491009 | New York Daily Tribune | Sold before Poe's death but published posthumously[62]
"The Bells" | November 1849 | 491101 | Sartain's Union Magazine | Sold before Poe's death but published posthumously[58]