Woodberry and Stedman's _The Works of Edgar Allan Poe with a Memoir, Critical Introductions, and Notes_, 10 vols. Harrison's _The Virginia Edition of the Works of Edgar Allan Poe_, 17 vols. (Contains excellent critical essays.) Harrison's _Life and Letters of Edgar Allan Poe_, 2 vols. Stedman's _Poets of America_. (Poe.) Fruit's _The Mind and Art of Poe's Poetry_. Canby's _The Short Story in English_, Chap. XI. (Poe.) Baldwin's _American Short Stories_. (Poe.) Payne's _American Literary Criticism_. (Poe.) Prescott's _Selections from the Critical Writings of Edgar Allan Poe, edited with an Introduction and Notes_. Gates's _Studies and Appreciations_. (Poe.) Trent's _William Gilmore Simms_. Erskine's _Leading American Novelists_. (Simms.) Ward's _Memorial of Sidney Lanier_, in _Poems of Sidney Lanier_, edited by his Wife. Burt's _The Lanier Book_. Burt and Cable's _The Cable Story Book_. Page's _The Page Story Book_. SUGGESTED READINGS Selections (not always the ones indicated below) from _all_ the authors mentioned in this chapter may be found in Trent's _Southern Writers_, 524 pages, and Mims and Payne's _Southern Prose and Poetry for Schools_, 440 pages. Selections from the majority of the poets are given in Painter's _Poets of the South_, 237 pages, and Weber's _Selections from the Southern Poets_, 221 pages. The best poems of Poe and Lanier may be found in Page's _The Chief American Poets_. POETRY POE.--His best poems are short, and may soon be read. They are _Annabel Lee_, _To One in Paradise_, _The Raven_, _The Haunted Palace_, _The Conqueror Worm_, _Ulalume_, _Israfel_, _Lenore_, and _The Bells_. HAYNE.--_A Dream of the South Winds_, _Aspects of the Pines_, _The Woodland Phases_, and _A Storm in the Distance_. TIMROD.--_Spring_, _The Lily Confidante_, _An Exotic_, _The Cotton Boll_, and _Carolina_. LANIER.--_The Marshes of Glynn_, _Sunrise_, _The Song of the Chattahoochee_, _Tampa Robins_, _Love and Song_, _The Stirrup Cup_, and _The Symphony_. RYAN.--_The Conquered Banner_, and _The Sword of Robert Lee_. TABB.--Fourteen of his complete poems may be found on two pages (489 and 490) of Stedman's _An American Anthology_. Much of Tabb's best work is contained in his little volume entitled _Poems_ (1894). CAWEIN.--_The Whippoorwill_, _There are Fairies_, _The Shadow Garden_, _One Day and Another_, _In Solitary Places_, _A Twilight Moth_, _To a Wind Flower_, _Beauty and Art_, _A Prayer for Old Age_. The best two volumes of general selections from Cawein's verse have been published in England and given the titles, _Kentucky Poems_ (1902), 264 pages, edited with an excellent _Introduction_ by Edmund Gosse, and _New Poems_ (1909), 248 pages. His best nature poetry will be found in his single American volume of selections, entitled _Poems, Selected by the Author_ (1911). PROSE