In spite of his scorn for their pretensions, Edgar Allan Poe, in his way ... he already makes use of birds as symbols of Nemesis or Destiny, and many of the passages are nearly identical in ...

To borrow a current idiom, Edgar Allan Poe was a lot. Which means ... a straight-up sex symbol. Yet his fortunes never materially improved. In the words of one editor, he was “unstable as ...

Edgar Allan Poe was more than a tormented poetic and literary genius writing macabre stories of gloom; he also was a husband, a companion and a friend. “He was a social person. He wasn’t some ...

In the annals of American literary culture, few have left as bold a mark as Edgar Allan Poe. In 1841, with the locked-room mystery “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” Poe invented the genre of ...