"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 Death using common elements from Gothic fiction. Poe drew his inspiration from several works, including Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and was accused of plagiarizing "The City in the Sea" from a lesser-known poem...