Spooky season is here, and it's once again Edgar Allan Poe's time to shine. Poe, known for his macabre short stories and poems, is in the spotlight with the new Netflix adaptation The Fall of the ...

Even in his admiration, Jerome McGann, author of the new study The Poet Edgar Allan Poe: Alien Angel, admits that Poe’s poetry “is at once unremittingly vulgar and theoretically advanced, even ...

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 ...

Edgar Allan Poe died on October 7, 1849, just days after being found delirious, lying in a ditch and wearing someone else's clothes. The poet's mysterious death has captivated people ever since.

That’s the preferred insult poet Edgar Allan Poe flung at his literary rivals from Boston in the 1840s. The author of “The Raven” had a notoriously fraught relationship with Boston, ...

Become a paid member to listen to this article. Here at Untapped New York, we have a special relationship to “The Raven,” the famous poem by Edgar Allan Poe that was published 175 years on ...

While Tamerlane Usher is not ruling on the scale of the narrator in Edgar Allan Poe’s “Tamerlane” poem, published in 1827, she exudes the qualities discussed within.

This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. Where I grew up in Richmond, Virginia, I had to read a lot of Edgar Allan Poe’s gothic poetry and short stories ...

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. The works of ...