Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Be That Word Our Sign of Parting...

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This is just to say that I'll be taking a hiatus from this blog. (I'm suddenly picturing all of you responding to this statement by ...
Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Mr. Poe Takes the Stage (Part Two)

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"The Frogpondians may as well spare us their abuse. If we cared a fig for their wrath we should not first have insulted them to their ...
Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Mr. Poe Takes the Stage (Part One of Two)

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“[T]he most exquisite of sublunary pleasures…[is] the making of a fuss, or, in the classical words of a western friend, the ‘kicking up a b...
Tuesday, June 21, 2011

The Many Deaths of Edgar Poe

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"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...
Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Poe and the Milk of Paradise

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"[I] was afraid, from the wild imaginations manifested in your writings, that you were an opium-eater--had some chance for hope that th...
Saturday, June 11, 2011

Whether You Loved or Hated "Arthur Gordon Pym"...

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...I recommend reading Mat Johnson's "Pym." It's often hilarious, and refreshingly original. I thought the first half of...
Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Yet Another Cautionary Tale

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On January 11, 1848, George W. Eveleth wrote Poe a letter in which he quoted from a statement made by an editor of a paper called the "...
Tuesday, May 31, 2011

The Poetic Principle

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"The Poetic Principle" was Poe's last major prose work. It was a lecture he delivered several times in 1848 and 1849, although...