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	Edgar Allan Poe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Poe was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of actress Eliza Poe and actor David Poe, Jr.
		Poe associated the aesthetic aspect of art with pure ideality, claiming that the mood or sentiment created by a work of art elevates the soul, and is thus a spiritual experience.
		Along with Mary Shelley, Poe is regarded as the foremost proponent of the Gothic strain in literary Romanticism.
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	Encyclopedia: Edgar Allen Poe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Both of Poe's parents died before he was three years old, and Poe was taken into the home of John Allan, a successful merchant in Richmond, Virginia, and baptized Edgar Allan Poe.
		Poe used his fiction as a means of supporting himself, and with the December issue of 1835, Poe began editing the Southern Literary Messenger for Thomas W. White in Richmond.
		Snodgrass, an acquaintance of Poe's who was among those who saw him in his last days, was convinced that Poe's death was a result of drunkenness, and did a great deal to popularise this interpretation of the events.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Edgar-Allen-Poe (2220 words)

	Poems by Edgar Allen Poe
		Edgar was orphaned at an early age, and was sent to live with a foster family, the Allans, in Richmond, Virginia.
		Poe won a short story contest at the age of 24 and therefore became a literary critic for the "Southern Literary Messenger".
		Edgar's life was marred with intense drinking bouts, giving him a bad reputation in 19th century society.
	www.internal.org /list_poems.phtml?authorID=5 (371 words)

	From Revolution to Reconstruction: Outlines: Outline of American Literature: Democratic Origins and Revolutionary ...
		Poe's strange marriage in 1835 to his first cousin Virginia Clemm, who was not yet 14, has been interpreted as an attempt to find the stable family life he lacked.
		Poe believed that strangeness was an essential ingredient of beauty, and his writing is often exotic.
		Poe's "decadence" also reflects the devaluation of symbols that occurred in the 19th century -- the tendency to mix art objects promiscuously from many eras and places, in the process stripping them of their identity and reducing them to merely decorative items in a collection.
	odur.let.rug.nl /~usa/LIT/poe.htm (806 words)

	Edgar Allan Poe
		Poe was bound for his post in the United States Army at Ft. Moultrie on the tip of Sullivan's Island.
		So Poe arrived at Sullivan's Island a mental misfit, and yet he was serving as clerk of his unit, a position that had responsibility and put him in contact with his officers.
		Poe left South Carolina after only a brief stay, but the mystery and melancholy of the Carolina Low Country stayed with him forever - it is seen again and again in stories published years after his departure from Fort Moultrie.
	www.literarytraveler.com /edgarallanpoe/poe_sullivansisland.htm (1895 words)

	CyberTour: Edgar Allan Poe
		Poe also wrote romantic poetry, fl comedy, science fiction, broad farce, and is considered by many to be the father of the detective story.
		For the true devotee, a pilgrimage to the monuments erected to Poe is a must, but trips up and down the eastern seaboard are not always a viable option.
		The aforementioned Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore is one of the newer websites from one of the oldest Poe appreciation societies.
	dcls.org /x/archives/poe.html (680 words)

	Biography: Edgar Allan Poe \| The Work of Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Poe next took up residence in Baltimore with his widowed aunt, Maria Clemm, and her daughter, Virginia, and turned to fiction as a way to support himself.
		Poe, his aunt, and Virginia moved to Richmond in 1835, and he became editor of the Southern Literary Messenger and married Virginia, who was not yet 14 years old.
		Poe published fiction, notably his most horrifying tale, Berenice in the Messenger, but most of his contributions were serious, analytical, and critical reviews that earned him respect as a critic.
	bau2.uibk.ac.at /sg/poe/Bio.html (876 words)

	Today in History: January 19
		Before the year was out, Poe had accumulated a debt of $2,000, maintaining the lifestyle of a Virginia gentleman of substance, and had exhausted the patience of his foster father.
		Poe called the new genre the "tale of ratiocination." The first story of this type, Murders in the Rue Morgue, featured an apparently inexplicable crime and a step-by-step analysis by the rational Frenchman Dupin, as narrated by his admiring and baffled sidekick.
		This theme seems to have arisen from Poe's grief over the early loss of his mother, followed by the deaths of his friend's mother, when he was fifteen years old, and of his foster mother, when he was twenty.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/today/jan19.html (1053 words)

	Biography of Edgar Allen Poe, an introduction to the author of the Raven
		EDGAR ALLEN POE was born in Boston, January 19, 1809, and after a tempestuous life of forty years, he died in the city of Baltimore, October 7, 1849.
		Edgar, the second son, a bright, beautiful boy, was adopted by John Allen, a wealthy citizen of Richmond.
		Poe has been severely censured by many writers for his wild and stormy life, but we notice that Ingram and some other prominent authors claim that he has been willfully slandered and that many of the charges brought against him are not true.
	www.2020site.org /literature/edgar_allen_poe.html (829 words)

	Edgar Allen Poe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Poe was a pioneer in both genres, and together they constitute, in bulk, half of his short tales.
		Poe's several tales of balloon and sea travel approach the borderline of science fiction, dealing plausibly with scenes that were fantastic, or beyond the bounds of everyday reality.
		Poe took a genre dominated by fantastic voyages, Utopias, sleepers into the future (Mercier, Washington Irving) and gothic scientific experimenters (Hoffmann, Godwin, Shelley and Hawthorne), and turned it into modern sf.
	members.aol.com /MG4273/poe.htm (1358 words)

	Poe's Life - PoeMuseum.org
		Elizabeth Arnold Poe died in Richmond on December 8, 1811, and Edgar was taken into the family of John Allan, a member of the firm of Ellis and Allan, tobacco-merchants.
		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.
		In 1845, Poe became famous with the spectacular success of his poem "The Raven," and in March of that year, he joined C. Briggs in an effort to publish The Broadway Journal.
	www.poemuseum.org /poes_life (850 words)

	Edgar Allan Poe
		Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), the father of the modern mystery, was born in Boston on January 19, 1809.
		Indeed, Edgar Allan Poe's first love was poetry, although he was unable to make a living at it early on, he was able to publish two small volumes during these early years.
		Poe died at the age of 40 in October 1849 in Baltimore.
	www.mysterynet.com /edgar-allan-poe (794 words)

	American Masters . Edgar Allan Poe \| PBS
		The Allens (from which Poe took his middle name) brought him to England and provided him with a strong education, but were resistant to his literary aspirations.
		In 1844 Poe received some attention for his masterful poem "The Raven." But with the slight advances in his career during the mid-1840s also came the setbacks of his continued drinking, employment problems, and most of all, the ill health of his wife, Virginia.
		A man profoundly ahead of his time, Edgar Allen Poe pointed to the mysteries of the psyche, to the dark truths that float in our dreams, to our unredeamable fears; and for this, the art of writing will remain eternally grateful.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/americanmasters/database/poe_e.html (630 words)

	Edgar Allan Poe - Biography and Works
		Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts, to parents who were itinerant actors.
		Edgar was taken into the home of a Richmond merchant John Allan and brought up partly in England (1815-20), where he attended Manor School at Stoke Newington.
		Poe suffered from bouts of depression and madness, and he attempted suicide in 1848.
	www.online-literature.com /poe (625 words)

	Edgar Allan Poe
		Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to parents who were itinerant actors.
		Poe's work and his theory of "pure poetry" was early recognized especially in France, where he inspired Jules Verne, Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867), Paul Valéry (1871-1945) and Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-1898).
		In his supernatural fiction Poe usually dealt with paranoia rooted in personal psychology, physical or mental enfeeblement, obsessions, the damnation of death, feverish fantasies, the cosmos as source of horror and inspiration, without bothering himself with such supernatural beings as ghosts, werewolves, vampires, and so on.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /eapoe.htm (1923 words)

	Edgar Allen Poe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Edgar Allen Poe was born January 19, 1809 in Boston to Elizabeth Arnold Poe, an English born actress, and David Poe, Jr., an actor from Baltimore, Maryland.
		As an adult, Edgar Allen Poe went away to college, but was forced to leave because of his excessive gambling.
		Poe is famous for his ability to delve into the inner psyche of his characters.
	www.netwurx.net /~krauklis/authorpoe.htm (671 words)

	Biography
		While the enormous popularity of Edgar Allan Poe's famous short stories and poems continues to highlight his creative brilliance, Poe's renown as the master of horror, the father of the detective story, and the voice of "The Raven" is something of a mixed blessing.
		Poe was not averse to the commercial sensationalism either: he wrote several "hoaxes" as news and later capitalized on his personal notoriety for bookings on the lecture/recital circuit.
		Ultimately, Poe took writing to be a moral task that worked not through teaching lessons, but in simultaneously stimulating his readers' mental, emotional, and spiritual faculties through texts of absolute integrity.
	www.allpoe.com (779 words)

	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).
		Here is Poe's note about these, "Private reasons--some of which have reference to the sin of plagiarism, and others to date of Tennyson's first poems--have induced me, after some hesitation to republish these, the crude compositions of my earliest boyhood.
	www.geocities.com /Area51/Corridor/4220/poe.html (449 words)

	Island of Freedom - Edgar Allan Poe
		Poe's parents were touring actors; both died before he was 3 years old, and he was taken into the home of John Allan, a prosperous merchant in Richmond, Va., and baptized Edgar Allan Poe.
		Among Poe's poetic output, about a dozen poems are remarkable for their flawless literary construction and for their haunting themes and meters.
		Poe's extraordinary manipulation of rhythm and sound is particularly evident in The Bells (1849), a poem that seems to echo with the chiming of metallic instruments, and The Sleeper (1831), which reproduces the state of drowsiness.
	www.island-of-freedom.com /POE.HTM (940 words)

	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.
		While living in Philadelphia, Poe went from the high of being a popular lecturer to the despair of learning that his wife Virginia was ill with tuberculosis.
		The brief and tragic life of the author, his times, and literary legacy are interpreted in the building that once sheltered Poe and his family.
	www.nps.gov /edal (233 words)

	The Poe Decoder (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The literary talent of Edgar Allan Poe is beyond dispute, but his activity in the scientific area (condensed in Eureka) has been sadly neglected or ignored.
		Poe's Startling discovery of current modern theories of the formation and destiny of the universe and the symbolic presentation of those theories in "MS Found in a Bottle" and "A Descent into the Maelström."
		The Poe Decoder is a project started by a small group of Poe enthusiasts to make criticism and information on Poe and his work available on the Internet.
	www.poedecoder.com (586 words)

	Edgar Allan Poe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Summoning a relative of Poe, Dr. Snodgrass had the now unconscious and dying poet taken in a carriage to the Washington Hospital and put into the care of Dr. J.
		Poe is buried in the Old Western Burial Ground in Baltimore, Maryland.
		Every January 19, Poe's birthday, for more than fifty years a man dressed in fl and fedora has left cognac accompanied by three red roses on Poe's grave.
	www.celebritymorgue.com /edgar-allan-poe (226 words)

	Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		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").
		Poe, his wife Virginia, and his mother-in-law Maria rented several homes in Philadelphia, but only the last house has survived.
	www.nps.gov /edal/index1.html (211 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Poe who, in my opinion, is the greatest of all American writers.
		I recommend these stories and poems to anyone who would like a break from the ordinary, wants to explore other less-than-desirable emotions, or needs something to help them experience the darker parts of the heart and mind that are necessary to balance with the more common, more "cheerful" things.
		Poe was a surrealist before the word was invented, and it is quite obvious that he abhorred the commonplace.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0785813500?v=glance (1495 words)

	Edgar Allan Poe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The "Poe Webliography" calls this "Must-see browsing for all serious students of Poe." A great site with variant versions of the works.
		Poe Webliography: Essential for those looking at Poe on the web, this site by Rutgers professor Heyward Ehrlich includes annotated reviews of sites on Poe.
		"Edgar Allen [sic] Poe" by Rufus Griswold (The International Magazine of Literature, Art, and Science, October 1, 1850).
	www.wsu.edu /~campbelld/amlit/poe.htm (365 words)

	Salon.com Audio \| "The Raven" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		American master of terror Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston in 1809 to professional actors who died when Poe was a child.
		Poe started publishing his poetry and stories in the early 1830s and pursued a career in journalism to ensure some sort of financial security.
		But both Poe's and his wife Virginia's poor health kept the pair in financial and emotional distress.
	archive.salon.com /audio/poetry/2000/10/31/poe/index (424 words)

	A Poe Webliography by Heyward Ehrlich
		Poe Works, part of a larger project to put the version history of everything Poe wrote and as many actual texts as possible online.
		The Michigan HTI Poe collection is generally similar in content to the Virginia ETC collection, but lacks "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Gold-Bug," and "Ligeia." The Michigan HTI permits remote access to both the HTML and SGML versions.
		"Edgar Allan Poe and Baltimore" by Doug Bouter.
	andromeda.rutgers.edu /~ehrlich/poesites.html (3003 words)

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