The World of Edgar Allan Poe

"[M]y extremely delicate health...and all too sensitive heart, with an irrepressible--shall I call it Genius? --struggling for recogn...

This post is designed to provide a home for a few stray bits of Poeana I've encountered here and there. 1. The Case of the Postponed Pym...

"It was many and many a year ago In a kingdom by the sea That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of Annabel Lee......

I have always instinctively believed that "The Raven" was not, as is generally assumed, some sort of autobiographical expression o...

In an earlier post , I touched briefly on the odd and rather slimy role Sarah Anna Lewis played in the last two years of Poe's life. I ...

In his recent book, "Poe in His Own Time," Benjamin F. Fisher made reference to Elizabeth Oakes Smith's copious writings about...

"Hardly anybody behaves normally in this history...In other words, if there ever was a life to illustrate the truth that there are many...

"'The fact is, we have all been a good deal puzzled because the affair is so simple, and yet baffles us altogether.' 'Perha...

In analyzing the relationship between Edgar Allan Poe and "Annie" Richmond, one little-known, but interesting fact stands out: Am...