Edgar Allan Poe

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Standard Name: Poe, Edgar Allan

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Education Maya Angelou
Marguerite Johnson had already become a voracious reader, both of Black writers and of canonical dead white males. Shakespeare , she wrote later, was my first white love.
Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Heinemann New Windmill Series.
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She also enjoyed and respected...
Occupation Charles Baudelaire
Remembered largely for his poetry, whose early publication provoked a major crisis in censorship, CB also wrote important prose, especially criticism, and translated Edgar Allan Poe 's stories into French. As a literary and art...
Textual Production Theodora Benson
As Elizabeth Jenkins told it, this began as an idea for a reportage novel illuminating the secrets of some particular métier. Jenkins hoped for something of morbid decadence reminiscent of Edgar Allan Poe , but...
Textual Features Elizabeth Bishop
The volume reproduces in facsimile no fewer than sixteen drafts of one of EB 's best-known poems, One Art; Quinn's notes include snippets of rejection letters from the New Yorker.
White, Gillian. “Awful but Cheerful”. London Review of Books, pp. 8-10.
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The passages...
Intertextuality and Influence Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Critics are divided as to who should be seen as the detective in the novel, since there are several candidates. In its title—evoking both an Edgar Allan Poe story of this title and the Book...
Textual Features Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The title piece, A Drama of Exile, is the most ambitious. It visualises the consequences of the biblical Fall from paradise, since, as EBB writes in the preface (where she casts herself, too, as...
Intertextuality and Influence Angela Carter
Carter attributes the idea for Love to Benjamin Constant 's nineteenth-century novel Adolphe. Linden Peach also notes intertextual references to Edgar Allan Poe 's poem Annabel Lee, and Nathaniel Hawthorne 's novel The Scarlet Letter.
Peach, Linden. Angela Carter. St Martin’s Press.
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Textual Production Lettice Cooper
LC issued further biographies of eminent Victorians designed for young people: The Young Florence Nightingale, 1960, The Young Victoria, 1961, The Young Edgar Allan Poe, 1964, and A Hand Upon the Time...
Textual Features Rebecca Harding Davis
She achieves this in Bits of Gossip in a series of scattered remembrances of my own generation which included vivid portraits of some of the most prominent men and women of the American nineteenth century...
Textual Production Daphne Du Maurier
DDM was fascinated by the history of Menabilly House, especially the story about workmen in the nineteenth century discovering a skeleton bricked up behind a wall—a tale calling to mind Poe 's short story...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Margaret Fuller
In her review Miss Barrett 's Poems she praised the English poet's majesty and her poetic vision but noted also her lack of economy and the stiffness of her verse.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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She reviewed works by...
Textual Production Elizabeth Goudge
Here Goudge appears in eclectic company: with, among others, Joan Aiken , Stephen King , and Edgar Allan Poe .
Textual Features Sarah Josepha Hale
Editorial policy was to avoid anything controversial in mainstream politics. The magazine never mentioned the Civil War during the course of the conflict. In contrast to the Ladies' Magazine, the new one had a...
Education Patricia Highsmith
PH went to various schools. She was removed from her first NewYork public school because her grandmother objected to her making friends with black children. Then came a small and select private school which she...
Occupation Richard Hengist Horne
Educated at Sandhurst , RHH started writing and editing in his thirties after a spell in the Mexican navy. His verse was praised by Thomas Carlyle and Edgar Allan Poe . He also adapted plays...

Timeline

About June 1827: Writing as a Bostonian, Edgar Allan Poe published...

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About June 1827

Writing as a Bostonian, Edgar Allan Poe published his first volume of poetry, Tamerlane and Other Poems, at his own expense.

About April 1831: Edgar Allan Poe's third volume of verse was...

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About April 1831

Edgar Allan Poe 's third volume of verse was entitled Poems; it included the well-known piece To Helen.

November 1839: Edgar Allan Poe published Tales of the Grotesque...

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November 1839

Edgar Allan Poe published Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, which included The Fall of the House of Usher.

1 April 1841: Graham's Magazine, published in Philadelphia...

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1 April 1841

Graham's Magazine, published in Philadelphia (which had Edgar Allan Poe on its staff and published much of his work), carried his The Murders in the Rue Morgue, often called the first detectivestory.

1843: Edgar Allan Poe published The Pit and the...

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1843

Edgar Allan Poe published The Pit and the Pendulum, whose suspense and threatened horror have made it one of his best-known stories.

19 November 1845: Edgar Allan Poe published The Raven and Other...

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19 November 1845

Edgar Allan Poe published The Raven and Other Poems.

1846: Edgar Allan Poe published The Philosophy...

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1846

Edgar Allan Poe published The Philosophy of Composition.

December 1848: Edgar Allan Poe published The Poetic Principle...

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December 1848

Edgar Allan Poe published The Poetic Principle in The Southern Literary Messenger after presenting it as a successful public lecture in Providence earlier in December.

9 October 1849: Rufus Griswold (later editor and publicist...

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9 October 1849

Rufus Griswold (later editor and publicist of Edgar Allan Poe ) published Poe's now-famous poemAnnabel Lee in the New York Daily Tribune in an obituary two days after the author's mysterious death.

Texts

Poe, Edgar Allan. “The Philosophy of Composition”. Selections from the Critical Writings of Edgar Allan Poe, edited by Frederick Clarke Prescott and Frederick Clarke Prescott, Gordian Press, 1981, pp. 150-66.
Poe, Edgar Allan. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe. Editors Stedman, Edmund Clarence and George Edward Woodberry, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1895.