1881 THE BELLS by EDGAR ALLAN POE Porter and Coates ART Illustrated ANTIQUE Book

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Be sure to add me to your favorites list ! So you don't miss out on our Great Sales !! (we will be posting many rare collectible books over the next several weeks, so please keep coming back )THE BELLSby : Edgar Allan Poe1881Antique Decorative Book Gold Gilt Page Edges Great for Home Decor / DecoratingArt Illustrated by : R. Riordan, Charles P. King, F. O. C. Darley, S. G. McCutcheon, A. Fredericks, Granville Perkins, Miss C. A. NorthamGreat Gift IdeaPages Not NumberedPublished by Porter and Coates, PhiladelphiaCondition : This book has no dust jacket . It has fading, rubbing, heavy scuffing, stains/dirtiness,top and bottom of spine missing about a half inch, corner bumps, frontispiece is torn in half and taped, some pages starting to separate and last four pages have separated at gutter but are with the book-(see pic 8) and age toning. Please look at all of the pictures as sometimes it is possible we may have missed something.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------A Little Info From Wikipedia" 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. Several deeper interpretations exist as well. One is that the poem is a representation of life from the nimbleness of youth to the pain of age. Growing despair is emphasized alongside the growing frenzy in the tone of the poem. Another is the passing of the seasons, from spring to winter. The passing of the seasons is often used as a metaphor for life itself. The poem also suggests a Poe theme of mourning over a lost wife, courted in sledge, married and then killed in a fire as the husband looks on. The tolling of the iron bells reflects the final madness of the grief-stricken husband.The sounds of the verses, specifically the repetitive " bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells ," lie on a narrow line between sense and nonsense, causing a feeling of instability. [2] Poe uses the word "tintinnabulation", apparently a coinage of his own, based on the Latin word for "bell", tintinnabulum . The series of "bells" echo the imagined sounds of the various bells, from the silver bells following the klip-klop of the horses, to the "dong, ding-dong" of the swinging golden and iron bells, to screeching "whee-aaah" of the brazen bells. The series are always four, followed by three, always beginning and ending on a stressed syllable. The meter changes to iambic in the lines with repeated "bells," bringing the reader into their rhythm. Most of the poem is a more hurried trochaic tetrameter .T he bells of which he writes are thought to be those he heard from Fordham University 's bell tower, since Poe resided in the same neighborhood as that university. He also frequently strolled about Fordham's campus conversing with both the students and the Jesuits .Poe is believed to have written "The Bells" in May 1848 and submitted it three times to Sartain's Union Magazine , a magazine run by John Sartain , until it was finally accepted. He was paid fifteen dollars for his work, though it was not published until after his death in the November 1849 issue. It was also published in the New York Tribune on the front page of its October 20, 1849 issue as "Poe's Last Poem".Inspiration for the poem is often granted to Marie Louise Shew, a woman who had helped care for Poe's wife Virginia as she lay dying. One day, as Shew was visiting Poe at his cott... read more

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