The City in the Sea
Poem written by Edgar Allan Poe / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"The City in the Sea" is a poem by Edgar Allan Poe. The final version was published in 1845, but an earlier version was published as "The Doomed City" in 1831 and, later, as "The City of Sin". The poem tells the story of a city ruled by a personification of Death using common elements from Gothic fiction. The poem appeared in the Southern Literary Messenger, The American Review, the Broadway Journal, as well as in the 1850 collection The Poets and Poetry of America.
Poe drew his inspiration from several works, including Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.