Poems By Edgar Allan Poe - The City in The Sea (1831)

The City in The Sea (1831)

In its first publication in 1831, "The City in the Sea" was published as "The Doomed City" before being renamed in 1845. It presents a personified Death sitting on the throne of a "strange city."

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