Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, editor, poet and literary critic. The Boston native only lived until he was 40 years old, but he was one of the most famous literary pioneers. His body of ...

Edgar Allan Poe quotes about love and life 1. “I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity.

Poe was taken in by John Allan, a wealthy Richmond merchant and an austere Scotsman who believed in self-reliance and hard work. His wife, Frances, became a second mother to Poe until she died in ...

Edgar Allan Poe, born in Boston, ... Their poetry is not so good.' The statue of Edgar Allan Poe near the Boston Common. Dina Rudick / The Boston Globe. By Dialynn Dwyer. October 30, ...

I applaud Willard Spiegelman’s arguments in his wonderful review of Jerome McGann’s “The Poet Edgar Allan Poe” (Bookshelf, Dec. 8). Certainly poetry should be read aloud.

WEST POINT, N.Y. — Edgar Allen Poe returns to Baltimore on Saturday, but it’s no ghost story. Though the name might conjure the dark fiction and bleak Gothic poetry of one of the masters of ...

Almost one hundred and fifty years after his death, Edgar Allan Poe’s prose and poetry continue to frighten, influence and inspire writers, composers, artists, poets, and readers all over the world.