The first volume of works includes the poetry of Edgar Allan Poe. The book is based on translations of the famous poets of the Silver Age - Konstantin Balmont and Valery Bryusov. The peculiarity of this publication is that it contains the most complete collection of Russian translations of Poe’s lyrics, created over more than a hundred years. As a result, the reader will have the opportunity to form an idea of “The Raven” and other masterpieces of the great American romantic as close to the original as possible, as well as to trace the various stages of the development of his poetic work in Russia.