Tamerlane

Tamerlane and Other Poems is the first book of poetry that Edgar Allan Poe ever published. Little is known about the publisher of the volume and Poe is said to have published it at his own expense in 1827, when “the poet had not completed his fourteenth year.” Although it is unlikely that the poet was younger than fourteen at the time the book was published, this volume is nonetheless valuable to us in that it is one of the few relics of Poe juvenilia that we have at our disposal. Original editions of this book have fetched tens of thousands of dollars at auction and few first editions are currently in existence.