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Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)


 

American Literature Sites

Selected Bibliography 
Brief lecture notes on Poe 

  • Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore. The "Poe Webliography" calls this "Must-see browsing for all serious students of Poe." A great site with variant versions of the works.
  • Poe Webliography: Essential for those looking at Poe on the web, this site by Rutgers professor Heyward Ehrlich includes annotated reviews of sites on Poe. 
  • Knowing Poe. This new, media-rich site designed primarily for high school students includes information on Poe's life and works, with video segments by actor John Astin as Poe.
  • Edgar Allan Poe Museum. Focusing on Poe's years in Richmond, Virginia, this site includes a biographical sketch and the text of selected works.
  • Professor Ann Woodlief of VCU has prepared a hypertext study version of "The Fall of the House of Usher."
  • Poe Chronology 
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  • The House of Usher Page.  Fine general page, interesting and frequently updated. Warning: Music starts when the page loads.
  • The Poe Perplex. This older site (no longer maintained) was created by students at the U.S. Naval Academy; it contains information on the poems and tales.
  • Article attributing Poe's death to rabies rather than to alcoholism.
  • The Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site web page includes a picture of Poe's house in Philadelphia.
  • Poe Page and Poe Decoder. Biographical information and individual (not necessarily scholarly) essays on Poe.
    • Nineteenth-century views of Poe
  • "Edgar Allen [sic] Poe" by Rufus Griswold (The International Magazine of Literature, Art, and Science, October 1, 1850). See also "Poe and his Biographer, Griswold," The Old Guard, June 1866.
  • "Life and Writing of Edgar Allan Poe" (The United States Democratic Review, December 1850)
  • "Edgar Allan Poe" by John Savage (The United States Democratic Review, Jan. 1851).
  • "Edgar Allan Poe" (The United States Democratic Review, February 1851)
  • "The Late Edgar Allan Poe" (The United States Democratic Review, April 1856)
  • "Edgar Allan Poe" (North American Review, 1856)
  • "Edgar Allan Poe" by Edmund Clarence Stedman (Scribner's, 1880)
  • "Poe's Legendary Years" by G. E. Woodberry (Atlantic, 1884)
  • "Selections from the Correspondence of Edgar Allan Poe," ed. George Woodberry (Century, Sept. 1894) ("Selections," Oct. 1894) ("Selections," Aug. 1894)
  • "The Works of Edgar Allan Poe" (anon.) (Atlantic, 1896)
  • "Poe's Place in American Literature" by Hamilton Wright Mabie (Atlantic, 1899)
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    Read Poe's works in the Southern Literary Messenger (Page images at the Michigan MOA site)
    Selected Works Available Online (from the Poe Society of Baltimore site)
     
  • "The Fall of the House of Usher" (link to several versions)
  • "The Philosophy of Composition"
  • "Israfel"
  • "Ligeia"
  • "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket"
  • "The Purloined Letter"
  • "The Raven"
  • "Sonnet: To Science"
  • "To Helen"
  • "William Wilson"
  • "The Masque of the Red Death" 


    • Comments to D. Campbell.