Edgar Allan Poe

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...

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 .

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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.