Poe, Edgar Allan

Edgar Allan Poe is one of the most famous writers in American literary history. He was able to extend his writing into realms of literature never-before imagined. Read more about the life and works of Edgar Allan Poe.

Read the works of Edgar Allan Poe.

Selections from Poe's Essays & Sketches.

Here, Pulitzer-Prize winning biographer Kenneth Silverman reflects on the life and works of Edgar Allan Poe, with many of the contradictions and travesties that make up this illusive and often controversial character of Edgar Allan Poe. His biography is an unforgettable tribute to a man who undermined and devastated his own genius.

The poems and short stories of Edgar Allan Poe are full of horror and mystery. With these collections, you'll get a taste for the works of Edgar Allan Poe, whose critical essays, poems, and other works are an important part of American literature. Read more from one of America's greatest literary masters.

Poe memorabilia, library and garden. Old Stone House, exhibit rooms, model of Richmond in Poe's time.

There was a man behind "The Cask of Amontillado," "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Black Cat," and poems like "Annabel Lee" and "The Raven." That man, Edgar Allan Poe, was talented, but he was also eccentric and prone to alcoholism--having experienced more than his share of tragedies. But, what stands out even more prominently than the tragedy of Edgar Allan Poe's life is his philosophy of death. Read on.

El Dorado is a mythical city of gold. Edgar Allan Poe also wrote about El Dorado in this famous poem.

How did Edgar Allan Poe die? What were the circumstances that surrounded his death? These and many other questions have been haunting literary researchers for decades. It appeared that we might never get an answer until John Evangelist Walsh started investigating the case. Read on.

If all the world is indeed a stage and all the men and women merely players, then I'm a techie. You know those dark-clad people who briefly peek around the curtain’s edge after the ovations die down for the actors on stage? The ones that the actors always turn to applaud while the audience is standing up and collecting their belongings? That's me.

Although the movement began more than 130 years ago, readers today are still trying to define the highly complex genre known as American Romanticism. Read more about Romanticism and the supernatural as they relate to Edgar Allan Poe's "Ligeia."

The Poe Shadow is an entertaining detective story--one could almost imagine that the tale comes from the pen of Edgar Allan Poe. Of course the focal point of the book is Poe's murder.

Read more about Edgar Allan Poe, from Studies in Classic American Literature by D.H. Lawrence.

Edgar Allan Poe is one of the most curiously eccentric figures in American literature. He was a man of poetry and short stories--a man given to leaps of grotesque imaginings and fantastic fleets of fancy. He wrote some fascinating lines! Here are a few quotes.