“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Reception | Mary Stewart | This book was awarded the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award (named after Edgar Allan Poe
) and stayed on the New York Times best-seller list for eight months. Friedman, Lenemaja. Mary Stewart. Twayne Publishers. xiv |
Intertextuality and Influence | Edith Sitwell | ES
loved Christina Rossetti
from her childhood, and later thoroughly admired Gertrude Stein
. As a young woman, however, she believed: Women's poetry, with the exception of Sappho
. . . and Goblin MarketChristina Rossetti
and... |
Publishing | Lydia Howard Sigourney | Throughout her career LHS
was prolific in magazine publication: many of her volumes of poetry consist largely of pieces reprinted from periodicals. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 239 |
Literary responses | Lydia Howard Sigourney | Edgar Allan Poe
, reviewing this book for the Southern Literary Messenger, thought that LHS
did too much borrowing: from Hannah More
, William Cowper
, William Wordsworth
, and Byron
. Critic Emily Stipes Watts |
Literary responses | Lydia Howard Sigourney | |
Literary responses | Catharine Maria Sedgwick | CMS
received considerable critical and popular acclaim during her lifetime: Nathaniel Hawthorne
described her as our most truthful novelist, Foster, Edward Halsey. Catharine Maria Sedgwick. Twayne. 137 |
Reception | Catharine Amy Dawson Scott | This novel received excellent reviews and in early 1920 reached the short-list of three English submissions for the Prix Femina Vie Heureuse, which however went in the end to Cicely Hamilton
. In The Observer... |
Education | Flannery O'Connor | By this time her reading at home, which was always eclectic depending on what was available, was dominated by an ten-volume edition of Edgar Allan Poe
. Gooch, Brad. Flannery. Little, Brown and Co. 73-4 |
Occupation | Herman Melville | Impelled to write about his maritime adventures, he published Typee in 1846, and its sequel Omoo in 1847. Both of these first books were popular but Moby Dick (first published in England on 18 October... |
Publishing | Anne Marsh | Harriet Martineau
was amazed when AM
first read her one of these tales, The Admiral's Daughter, and felt that their hostess later that evening (Sarah Wedgwood
) must have been almost equally amazed... |
Friends, Associates | Sarah Lewis | Sarah Lewis
and her husband
began their relationship with Edgar Allan Poe
and his family. Garraty, John A., and Mark C. Carnes, editors. American National Biography. Oxford University Press. 13: 571 |
Textual Production | Sarah Lewis | The AmericanSarah Lewis
published her second volume of poetry, Child of the Sea and Other Poems, which was heavily promoted by Edgar Allan Poe
. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
Author summary | Sarah Lewis | Sarah Anna Lewis
was a mid-nineteenth-century American poet who is today better known for her association with Edgar Allan Poe
than for her writings. She began her career with frequent periodical publications, then published four... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Sarah Lewis | Their marriage is presumed to have been childless. Garraty, John A., and Mark C. Carnes, editors. American National Biography. Oxford University Press. 13: 570 |
Friends, Associates | Sarah Lewis | Following Poe
's death, Maria Clemm
continued frequently to visit SL
, who eventually began to tire of her. Clemm apparently, because of her jealous desire to have Poe as exclusively her own, Silverman, Kenneth. Edgar A. Poe: Mournful and Never-Ending Remembrance. Harper Collins. 443 |
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.