Edgar Allan Poe

Throughout her career LHS was prolific in magazine publication: many of her volumes of poetry consist largely of pieces reprinted from periodicals.Louis Godey paid an annual $500 for the privilege of attaching her...

Perhaps in part owing to Poe 's praise, Records of the Heart was in its eleventh edition by the time of SL 's death.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

SL seems to have turned from poetry to drama after Poe 's death and her own divorce.

CMS received considerable critical and popular acclaim during her lifetime: Nathaniel Hawthorne described her as our most truthful novelist, and her literary admirers also included James Fenimore Cooper and Edgar Allan Poe . Her...

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

Edgar Allan Poe 's review of the US version in Graham's Magazine withdrew the charge of imitating Hemans that he had formerly levelled at LHS . She had now, he felt, found her own voice.

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...

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...

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. The...

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...