He had friends,” said Richard A. Kopley, author of “Edgar Allan Poe: A Life,” recently published by the University of Virginia Press. “He had friends who loved him, he had some enemies, and he lived ...

To borrow a current idiom, Edgar Allan Poe was a lot. Which means, almost syllogistically, that any biography of him — even one as thoughtful and compassionate as Richard Kopley’s “Edgar ...

Discover Why ‘The Raven,’ Edgar Allan Poe’s Narrative Poem About a Distraught Lover and a Talking Bird, Remains an American Classic Published on this day in 1845, the work used alliteration ...

The poem romanticizes death and young love, as does Nicks’ song “Annabel Lee.” She followed Poe’s words fairly loyally, only altering images that need to be clarified from Poe’s 19th ...

It’s one of the most recognizable (and spookiest) poems in English. When Poe was writing “The Raven,” his wife, Virginia, was suffering from tuberculosis. It was a weird marriage—Virginia ...

Poet and novelist Edgar Allan Poe died on October 7, 1849. The culprit behind his untimely end is still unknown. Photograph by Superstock, Bridgeman Images ByErin Blakemore October 7, 2024 ...

And once again two heavyweights of American letters are uncomfortably joined at the hip — Washington Irving and Edgar Allan Poe. Because of Irving’s “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” and Poe’s voluminous ...