More than a century and a half after the death of Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), we celebrate the publication of the Complete Essays of one of the greatest storytellers and, in general, one of the most important writers in history. Far from being the tormented and melancholic person that has sometimes been presented to us, this edition shows a Poe committed to literature and aesthetics, as well as to the literary criticism of the work of his contemporaries. In this second volume translated by Antonio Jiménez Morato, the creator and the intellectual converge in these masterful and little-known texts, which group their literary criticism of American authors, with writers as well known as Washington Irving or Nathaniel Hawthorne. This second volume also includes his essay "The literary and social scene" where he brings together writings on the literary panorama of North America in the early nineteenth century, one of the best literary prints ever written. Gathered for the first time in Spanish and in four volumes, in these Complete Essays you can see Poe's talent for talking about literature and the cultural context in which he participated. An opportunity to discover, finally, all those lesser-known facets of the author of masterpieces such as The Fall of the House of Usher, The Raven or The Crimes of the Rue Morgue.