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Poe's Works

Did Poe Really Say That?

September 10, 2014

There are many popular Poe quotes circulating the Internet, quotes that are even printed on merchandise. Unfortunately, a majority of Poe quotes are falsely attributed to the literary genius. Some quotes are so bad Poe would be rolling in his grave! Take a look at our list and see which quotes you recognize as being falsely attributed to Poe. 1) “I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.” This is, frustratingly, one of the most misattributed quotes. If you look at the context, the grammar, the style of the quote, it most definitely is not “Poe-esque.” 2) “Believe only half of what you see ...

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Filed Under: The Poe Museum Blog Tagged With: literature, Poe's life, Poe's Works, poetry, short story

Edgar Allan Poe in Science # 2—September 2014 by Murray Ellison

September 5, 2014

Perhaps Edgar Allan Poe’s most overlooked contribution to English literature is that he is one of the earliest American writers who commented on many of the ways that the emerging technological trends of the nineteenth-century effected everyday citizens.  Poe’s science writing reveals the relationships between a writer who was looking for an audience interested in expressing his attitudes about science writing, and an audience that was looking for a writer who could explain the emerging developments of nineteenth-century science to them. Thus, there was an important relationship between ...

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Filed Under: The Poe Museum Blog Tagged With: education, history, literature, Poe's Works, science, science fiction, short story

Poe Museum’s Poem of the Week is “Ulalume”

April 15, 2014

One of the most cherished possessions of the Providence Athenaeum is a volume of the American Review with Edgar Allan Poe’s faint signature written in pencil under the anonymous poem “Ulalume.” That poem is the Poe Museum’s Poem of the Week, which was recommended to us by one of the Museum's Facebook followers. Poe visited the Providence Athenaeum in 1848 while courting the poet Sarah Helen Whitman. The two poets spent time among the stacks discussing literature and love (and apparently also vandalizing library books). “Ulalume” had been written the previous year, in the fall of 1847. ...

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Filed Under: The Poe Museum Blog Tagged With: education, horror, Poe's Works, poetry

Poe Museum’s Poem of the Week: “Eldorado”

April 4, 2014

In observance of National Poetry Month, the Poe Museum will profile a different poem each week in April. The first is one of Poe’s last poems and a favorite of the Poe Museum staff. Poe scholar called “Eldorado” the “noblest of Poe’s poems, the most universal in implication, and the most intensely personal. It is utterly simple, yet rich in suggestion and allusion.” Poe’s biographer Arthur Hobson Quinn, however, thought the poem “is mainly interesting because it reveals once more Poe’s inspiration for a poem through current American events.” El Dorado is a mythical city of gold hidden ...

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Filed Under: The Poe Museum Blog Tagged With: education, history, Poe's Works, poetry

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