Edgar Allan Poe

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. She also enjoyed and respected...

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...

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...

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. The passages...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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. She reviewed works by...

Here Goudge appears in eclectic company: with, among others, Joan Aiken , Stephen King , and Edgar Allan Poe .

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...

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...

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...