Last Update: Jan. 3, 2008  Navigation:  Main Menu    Poe's Works    Poe's Poems     Text: Edgar Allan Poe, "[Prefatory material for 'Tamerlane']," Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems, 1829, pp. 39-41

[page 39, unnumbered:] TAMERLANE.

[page 40, unnumbered:] ADVERTISEMENT.       This Poem was printed for publication in Boston, in the year 1827, but suppressed through circumstances of a private nature.

[page 41, unnumbered:] TO     JOHN NEAL       THIS POEM     IS     RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED.

Notes: In the "Advertisement," Poe is referring to his first collection of poetry, Tamerlane and Other Poems, 1827. John Neal was the editor of The Yankee and Boston Literary Gazette. Although Neal had rejected Poe's submission to his magazine of a poem, he encouraged Poe's efforts and praised this book when it was published.   [S:1 - ATMP, 1829 (fac, 1933)] - Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore - Works - Prefatory Material to Tamerlane