A Dream Within a Dream Summary
Edgar Allan Poe

A Dream Within a Dream Overview

 “A Dream Within a Dream” is a 24-line poem by American writer and poet, Edgar Allan Poe. The poem was first published in 1849 in The Flag of Our Union, a Boston newspaper that focused on stories. In the poem, Poe’s speaker laments over how life, seemingly founded on the loss of all that he holds dear, possesses a slippery, dream-like quality.