Unquestionably one of America's major writers, Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was far ahead of his time in his vision of a special area of human experience--the "inner world" of dream, hallucination, and imagination. He wrote fiction, poetry, and criticism...

With a relatively small volume of work, some fifty poems, a short novel, about seventy short stories, and a roughly equivalent volume of essays, Edgar Allan Poe has exerted a substantial influence on American and world literature. He may be regarded with...

From the perspective of more than a century and a half, the achievements of Edgar Allan Poe as a man of letters are extraordinary. He may be regarded without too much exaggeration as the single most important influence on the development of an entire poe...

Author Edgar Allan Poe's Dupin stories and his description of the character Dupin's pain and professional strategies for relieving it offer Poe a vehicle to honestly portray the workings of genius. His underlined insistence on the function of the material and the materialistic in...

A strange and troubled man, Edgar Allan Poe, a man obsessed with death but a genius nonetheless. His stories, written in the first half of the 19th century, enthrall readers today. Indeed, if Poe were alive, he might be producing "The X-Files" or writing...