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Edgar Allan Poe

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Annabel Lee Summary

Written in 1849, "Annabel Lee" was published the same year, just two days after Poe's death on October 7. It appeared in two newspapers, the Richmond Examiner and the New York Tribune, and then in the 1850 edition of The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe. The poem has since become one of Poe's most popular works. Using a melodious narrative form, the speaker laments the death, many years ago, of his beloved young bride...

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Edgar Allan Poe Biographies (8)

Edgar Allan Poe

1,478 words, approx. 5 pages

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... Read more

Edgar Allan Poe

5,782 words, approx. 20 pages

On Thursday, September 27, 1849, author Edgar Allan Poe left Richmond, Virginia by boat, heading for his home in New York. Poe never reached his destination. After visiting a friend in Baltimore on Se... Read more

Edgar Allan Poe

34,389 words, approx. 115 pages

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 o... Read more

Edgar Allan Poe

8,692 words, approx. 29 pages

Popular but not always respected in his own time, Edgar Poe is significant today not only for the quality of his best work but also for his influence on later writers. His poems were admired, especial... Read more

Edgar Allan Poe

8,555 words, approx. 29 pages

The story of Edgar Allan Poe's life remains one of the most disputed and slandered in the pages of American biography, despite conscious attempts to revise the story and rehabilitate the life. Decaden... Read more

Edgar Allan Poe

10,729 words, approx. 36 pages

Edgar Allan Poe 's importance as a short-story writer may be seen in his pioneering contributions to the genre, in his theory of the tale, in the rich variety, meaning, and significance of his stories... Read more

Edgar Allan Poe

36,084 words, approx. 121 pages

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 i... Read more

Edgar Allan Poe

36,259 words, approx. 121 pages

Biography EssayWith 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 substantia... Read more

Essays & Analysis (4)

Comparing and Contrasting Two Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

1,303 words, approx. 5 pages

Edgar Allan Poe's fate was to be a poet. His parents, both actors, were greatly interested in literature and the expression of words. Tragically, before the age of three, the great poet lost both of... Read more

Analysis of the Irony in "Annabel Lee"

1,349 words, approx. 5 pages

Although the poet and writer Edgar Allan Poe was an absolute genius at writing innovative, meaningful short stories and poems, he was, ironically, very poor; he constantly fought with hunger, for, in ... Read more

Poe's Unity of Effect

296 words, approx. 1 pages

Edgar Allen Poe, being the great writer that he was, never wrote a story without making sure that his effect came across as he wanted it to. To do this, he used unity of effect and made each word he ... Read more

Tone in "The Raven" and "Annabel Lee"

1,007 words, approx. 4 pages

The tone of "The Raven" and "Annabel Lee" is grievous and melancholy. In Poe's "Philosophy of Composition" Poe says, "Regarding then, Beauty as my province, my next question referred to the tone of i... Read more

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