The World of Edgar Allan Poe

The following poem appeared in the "New York Tribune" a few weeks after that paper published Rufus W. Griswold's infamous obit...

"But evil things, in robes of sorrow, Assailed the monarch's high estate. (Ah, let us mourn!--for never morrow Shall dawn ...

On this date in 1849 the writer George Lippard, a strange, colorful purveyor of ultra-lurid melodrama, Gothic mysticism and eccentric social...

Gaily bedight, A gallant knight, In sunshine and in shadow, Had journeyed long, Singing a song, In search of Eldorado. But he grew old-- Thi...

"And all the woe that moved him so That he gave that bitter cry And the wild regrets, and the bloody sweats None knew so well as I: For...

"Both we, and the beings I have mentioned as inhabiting the other elements, vanish into air at death, and go out of existence, spirit a...

Thy soul shall find itself alone 'Mid dark thoughts of the gray tomb-stone-- Not one, of all the crowd, to pry Into thine hour of secrec...

I suppose you all have heard that the Poe Toaster failed for the first time to make his annual appearance. This article doesn't give an...

I haven't the slightest idea. And neither do you. All of the usual suspects--delirium tremens, rabies (you'd think they'd figur...

Lo! 'tis a gala night Within the lonesome latter years! An angel throng, bewinged, bedight In veils, and drowned in tears, Sit in a thea...

Aside from some self-serving, self-glorifying, and arguably dishonest reminiscences of her acquaintance with Edgar Allan Poe that appeared i...