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The City in the Sea

This poem began life as The Doomed City in Poe’s Poems, published in 1831. Following his usual habit of continued revision, this episode is from Poe’s final revision which appeared in The Poets and Poetry of America (10th Edition), 1849.

Further reading on this poem can be found here. The source for this reading is here.