1881 The Bells
By Edgar Allan Poe
Published by Porter and Coates
6.5 x 8

Tge book is in good condition. The cover has rubbings and soiling. The beautiful gilt decorations and lettering on the cover as well as the page edges are intact and bright. The front endpaper has a few pencil writings. Just awesome!

The Bells is a heavily onomatopoeic poem by Edgar Allan Poe which was not published until after his death in 1849. It is perhaps best known for the diacopic use of the word bells. The poem has four parts to it; each part becomes darker and darker as the poem progresses from the jingling and the tinkling of the bells in part 1 to the moaning and the groaning of the bells in part 4.

This poem can be interpreted in many different ways, the most basic of which is simply a reflection of the sounds that bells can make, and the emotions evoked from that sound. For example, From the bells bells bells bells/Bells bells bells! brings to mind the clamoring of myriad church bells. S

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