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| | Biography of Edgar Allan Poe |
 | | Allan and her maiden sister, Nancy Valentine, who resided in the same household, were peculiarly fond of their "pet." He seems, indeed, to have been somewhat overdressed and spoiled as a very little boy, a propensity on the part of the women which the foster-father tried to offset by occasional but probably welltimed severity. | | | Poe was soon definitely engaged upon two literary projects, the editing of a text book on Conchology and the now long deferred publication of his collected tales. | | | Poe merely allowed his imagination to deal with familiar material found in such books as "The Mutiny of the Bounty", "Morell's Narrative of Four Voyages to the Pacific", and the like. |
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http://www.pambytes.com/poe/bio.html
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| | BIGpedia - Edgar Allan Poe - Encyclopedia and Dictionary Online |
| | Poe's poetry was translated into Russian by the Symbolist poet Konstantin Bal'mont and enjoyed great popularity there in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, influencing artists such as Nabokov, who makes several references to Poe's work in his most famous novel, Lolita. | | | Poe influenced the Swedish poet and author Viktor Rydberg, who translated a considerable amount of Poe's work into Swedish. | | | Baudelaire was the right man for this job, and his excellent translations meant that Poe enjoyed a vogue among avant-garde writers in France while being ignored in his native land. |
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http://www.bigpedia.com/encyclopedia/Edgar_Allan_Poe
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| | Poe's Life - PoeMuseum.org |
| | Poe's slashing reviews and sensational tales made him widely known as an author; however, he failed to find a publisher for a volume of burlesque tales, Tales of the Folio Club. | | | Also in 1845,Wiley and Putnam issued Tales by Edgar A. Poe and The Raven and Other Poems. | | | Meanwhile, Poe published a second book of poetry in 1829: Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems. |
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http://www.poemuseum.org/poes_life
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| | Edgar Allan Poe, 1809-1849 |
| | Poe published his only major long piece, The Narrative of A. Gordon Pym, in 1838 and a short story collection, Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, in 1839. | | | He and Nathaniel Hawthorne introduced the ambiguities of symbolism in their Gothic tales, and Poe is credited with defining the short story as a distinct literary form. | | | Raised a Virginian, Poe sometimes posed as the southern gentleman, even if transcending regionalism in his work. |
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http://docsouth.unc.edu/poe/bio.html
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| | Biography |
| | Today, Poe is known, read, and appreciated on the basis of a comparatively narrow body of work, roughly a dozen tales and half as many poems. | | | These famous verses were behind a powerful wave of enthusiasm for Poe that arose among the leading writers of Europe during his own lifetime, spread thereafter around the world, and was sustained through the "discovery" of existential "human condition" themes in his short stories generations later. | | | He is duly credited with creating the detective story genre and with transforming the Gothic mystery tale of the Romantic Period into the modern horror or murder stories centered in the outlying regions of human mind and experience. |
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http://www.enotes.com/edgar-allan-poe-masters
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| | The Edgar Allan Poe Crypto Challenge |
| | Another clue was taken from Tyler's correspondence to Poe in which he discussed the difficulty of deciphering text that was written backwards ("eht", rather than "the"), and spaces and punctuation are omitted. | | | This proposition was first advanced by Louis Renza in an essay titled "Poe's Secret Autobiography", and more recently by Shawn Rosenheim in his book "The Cryptographic Imagination" (buy it in hardcover or paperback). | | | According to Rosenheim's account in "The Cryptographic Imagination" Whalen's solution proceeded from recognition that the three-character pattern of "comma-dagger-section symbol", repeated seven times in eight lines, most likely represented the word "the" or "and". |
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http://www.bokler.com/eapoe.html
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| | Scholar, Athlete, and Artist, Edgar Allan Poe At University of Virginia LiteraryTraveler.com |
| | One of his stories had a hero named "Gaffy" and a friend of Poe's remembered that it was more comic in tone, making it different from the somber and gloomy tales he usually wrote. | | | Most of Poe's classmates remembered him as a good student due to his knack for quickly memorizing his lessons in Latin, Greek, French, Spanish, and Italian. | | | At these soirees, he would read the poetry of Byron or from his own tales. |
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http://www.literarytraveler.com/issue/edgar_allan_poe_author.aspx
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| | Edgar Allan Poe - Biography and Works |
| | In high school, we read some of Poe's works, one of which was a tale of a surgeon or possibly a scientist who had recently married a beautiful young bride. | | | Poe's first collection, Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, appeared in 1840. | | | It contained one of his most famous works, "The Fall of the House of Usher." During the early 1840s Poe's best-selling work was The Conchologist's First Book (1839). |
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http://www.online-literature.com/poe
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| | The Poe Page |
| | Poe is one of the greatest poets of all time. | | | Poe has a beautiful way of describing things, with the most vivid and imaginative vocabulary (for help with vocabulary click here). | | | Feel free to print or save any of the poems or stories. |
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http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Corridor/4220/poe.html
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| | E. A. Poe Society of Baltimore - The Works of Edgar Allan Poe |
| | There are many sites on the Internet featuring some of Poe's works, usually the better known poems (such as "The Raven") and tales (such as "The Fall of the House of Usher"), and several sites which purport to offer Poe's "Complete" works — none of these sites, however, can accurately make this boast. | | | At best, they might offer all of Poe's important poems and/or tales, often without clearly identifying the actual source of their texts. | | | As an example: "[S:0 - Works, 1850]" indicates that the text has not been proofread, and that the source for the text was the original 1850 edition of Poe's works. |
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http://www.eapoe.org/works
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| | Edgar Allan Poe's Richmond LiteraryTraveler.com |
| | Shew not only provided Poe with the light from these elegant candlesticks by which to compose his poem, "The Bells," but she is also said to have offered what would become its first words: | | | Built in 1927 (of much older materials), the Elizabeth Poe Building houses a wealth of documents, manuscripts, and first editions. | | | The meeting of his seminal imaginative genius with the deep soul concerns we all share (love, hate, fear, death, the afterlife, the ever- changing, fleeting human condition) secures his place in our psyches. |
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http://www.literarytraveler.com/literary_articles/edgar_allan_poe_richmond.aspx
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| | Edgar Allan Poe |
| | All three descended into blackness, what Poe described as 'the blackness of darkness' and Melville defined as 'the power of Blackness', though none descended into the pit of blackness of Fyodor Dostoyevsky, a place that only the Russian soul can truly know and manic-depressives catch a too frequent a glimpse. | | | Such is the power of the telling that the knuckles turn white as the book is gripped. | | | Through a circle that ever returneth in To the self-same spot, And much of Madness and more of Sin And Horror the Soul of the Plot. |
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http://www.heureka.clara.net/art/poe.htm
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| | Amazon.com: Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe: Books: Edgar Allan Poe |
| | And the most terrifying thing about Poe's stories and poems is that the threat doesn't come from a monster, or a devil, or a murderer: it comes from inside yourself, from your mind and your heart. | | | This tortured soul lived and died miserably and now millions of us embrace his work and lionize the man. Nearly every piece of Poe's work is tragic and beautiful. | | | But his intellect and sensibility (hypersensibility) made him a true genius, a profound connoiseur of the human soul, up and down. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0385074077?v=glance
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| | Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site (National Park Service) |
| | Exploring themes as diverse as spirituality, astronomy, science and depravity, Poe’s writing is as powerful and arresting today as when he was first published. | | | Thus the narrator begins to confess to murdering his wife in “The Black Cat”, just one of many fascinating creations from short story master and poet, Edgar Allan Poe. | | | But tomorrow I die, and to-day I would unburthen my soul.” |
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http://www.nps.gov/edal
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| | Biography: Edgar Allan Poe The Work of Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849) |
| | He praised the young Dickens and a few other contemporaries but devoted most of his attention to devastating reviews of popular contemporary authors. | | | Exemplary among his musical, mellifluous verses are The Raven (1845) and | | | He had, however, already written and printed (at his own expense) his first book, |
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http://bau2.uibk.ac.at/sg/poe/Bio.html
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| | The Poe Decoder |
| | Juan Lartigue G. Edgar Allan Poe and Science: A Cosmic Poet | | | Perversity, Poe's primal impulse as illustrated in "The Black Cat," "The Imp of the Perverse," and "Never Bet the Devil Your Head." | | | Poe's Doppelganger As Revealed In "William Wilson," "The Cask of Amontillado," and "The Man of the Crowd" |
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http://www.poedecoder.com
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| | Edgar Allan Poe |
| | Masque of the Red Death (1989) (short story) | | | Legend of Horror (1972) (story The Tell Tale Heart) | | | aka Edgar Allan Poe's Tales of Terror (USA) |
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http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0000590
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| | Books: Edgar Allan Poe |
| | Edgar Allan Poe: A Tale of the Ragged Mountains | | | Edgar Allan Poe: The Thousand-And-Second Tale of Scheherazade | | | Edgar Allan Poe: The Man That Was Used Up |
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http://books.eserver.org/fiction/poefiction
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| | Poe, Edgar Allan - Columbia Encyclopedia article about Poe, Edgar Allan |
| | His first book, Tamerlane and Other Poems, was published in 1827. | | | Indeed, his painful life, his neurotic attraction to intense beauty, violent horror, and death, and his sense of the world of dreams contributed to his greatness as a writer. | | | He contributed stories, poems, and astute literary criticism, but his drinking lost him the editorship. |
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http://columbia.thefreedictionary.com/Poe,+Edgar+Allan
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| | Neurotic Poets: Edgar Allan Poe |
| | Under these circumstances the young man quickly fell into debt, and began gambling in an attempt to make up his losses. | | | It was here that Edgar was to be raised, with his early influences being the stories of house slaves and the tales told by skippers and sea merchants. | | | This confirmed what Edgar had long feared: that she was suffering from the mysterious disease of consumption which had already claimed his father and his mother. |
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http://www.neuroticpoets.com/poe
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| | The Work of Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849) |
| | This site is dedicated to the work of Edgar Allan Poe, who is considered one of the most gifted writers of american literature. | | | Over 120 of his short-stories and poems as well as collections of his articles and criticism is available here and can be read on line and searched. | | | In 1976, The Alan Parsons Project started their career with this album inspired by the work of Poe. |
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http://bau2.uibk.ac.at/sg/poe/poe.html
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| | Edgar Allan Poe in his time |
| | August 17: He gives a lecture in Richmond on The Poetic Principle. | | | In April the second Edition of Poems by Edgar A. Poe is published in New York. | | | The Prose Romances of Edgar A. Poe published in Philadelphia. |
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http://www.heise.de/ix/raven/Literature/Authors/poe/life.html
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| | Edgar Allan Poe |
| | This older site (no longer maintained) was created by students at the U.S. Naval Academy; it contains information on the poems and tales. | | | "Edgar Allan Poe" by Edmund Clarence Stedman (Scribner's, 1880) | | | Professor Ann Woodlief of VCU has prepared a hypertext study version of "The Fall of the House of Usher." |
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http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/poe.htm
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| | The Academy of American Poets - Edgar Allan Poe |
| | Poe's work as an editor, a poet, and a critic had a profound impact on American and international literature. | | | "Criticism and information on Poe and his work. | | | Poe's father and mother, both professional actors, died before the poet was three and John and Frances Allan raised him as a foster child in Richmond, Virginia. |
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http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/130
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| | Edgar Allan Poe Poetry and Biography |
| | Edgar Allan Poe lived only 40 short years (1809-1849), yet his body of work is as rich a literary legacy as any published author. | | | These early works were not met with the critical acclaim that would later be bestowed upon him. | | | Tamerlane and other poems (1827) was Edgar Allen Poe's first published literary work, followed by two other works a few years later. |
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http://www.webterrace.com/poe
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| | Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site Home Page |
| | Poe, his wife Virginia, and his mother-in-law Maria rented several homes in Philadelphia, but only the last house has survived. | | | Poe lived in Philadelphia for six years from 1838-1844, and this period was his most prolific. | | | He was an editor and critic for two major magazines Burton's Gentlemen's Magazine and Graham's, and he published about 50 works (among them the classics "The Fall of the House of Usher", "The Pit and the Pendulum", and "The Masque of the Red Death"). |
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http://www.nps.gov/edal/index1.html
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| | Poe - the fanlisting for Edgar Allan Poe |
| | the fanlisting for the author and poet Edgar Allan Poe | | | In case you didn't know, a fanlisting is a list of fans of a particular subject and the mission is to find out how many fans there are in the world or to become the largest fanlisting there is. | | | Approved by tfl.org, this fanlisting for Edgar Allan Poe has been up and running since 26th May 2004. |
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http://fan.500ml.org/poe
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| | Edgar Allan Poe |
| | The "dear name" concealed within An Enigma can be found by reading the first letter of the first line, the second letter of the second line, etc. to the end of the sonnet--she was a poet and friend of Poe's. | | | Silence actually has fifteen lines but seems to belong here. |
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http://members.aol.com/ericblomqu/poe.htm
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| | Edgar Allan Poe's House of Usher fan site |
| | Roderick Usher and his sister Madeline invite you as their visitor to enter their decrepit mansion near that lurid tarn. | | | A decade being the web's 'premiere' Edgar Allan Poe fan site | | | Edgar Allan Poe's House of Usher fan site |
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