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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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... |
| 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
. |
| 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, 1995. 12 |
| 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, 1999. 13: 570 |
| 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, 1999. 13: 571 |
| 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, 1991. 443 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Lewis | Poe
continued to be involved with SL
's poetry until his death in 1849. For example, he returned her poem The Prisoner of Perotè to her with a message: I think this the most spirited... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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, 1998. 59, 62-7 |
| Literary responses | Sarah Lewis | According to John H. Ingram
, Poe was presented with the manuscript before its publication. At the same time he received $100 from the Lewises, which he badly needed, and which seems to have been... |
| Literary responses | Sarah Lewis | Poe
's complex involvement in SL
's writing career played a significant role in the development of her literary reputation. According to The Poe Log, around May 1849 she asked Poe to compose an... |
| Literary responses | Fanny Kemble | The book quickly became a best-seller, but elicited negative reviews.Edgar Allan Poe
spoke against the young female narrator for exhibiting too much self-confidence, but conceded that the writing had vivacity of style. Clinton, Catherine. Fanny Kemble’s Civil Wars. Simon and Schuster, 2000. 84 |
| 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, 1974. 137 |
| 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 |
Timeline
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 entitled Poems; it included the well-known piece To Helen.
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 (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 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 Poems.
1846
Edgar Allan Poe
published The Philosophy of Composition.
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 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.