Essays on Edgar Allan Poe

January 19, 1809, Boston, Massachusetts, United States

October 7, 1849, Church Home & Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Writer, Poet, Editor, Literary Critic

• The Fall of the House of Ushe
• The Purloined Letter
• The Tell-Tale Heart
• The Black Cat
• The Raven
• The Cask of Amontillado
• MS. Found in a Bottle
• Ulalume
• The Pit and the Pendulum
• Tamerlane, and Other Poems

• "Quoth the raven, "Nevermore!""
• "We loved with a love that was more than love."
• "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream."

January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849

Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre.

Edgar Allan Poe’s best-known works include the poems “To Helen” (1831), “The Raven” (1845), and “Annabel Lee” (1849); the short stories of wickedness and crime “The Tell-Tale Heart” (1843) and “The Cask of Amontillado” (1846); and the supernatural horror story “The Fall of the House of Usher” (1839).

Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer of primarily poetry and short stories that explored themes of death, regret, and lost love.

Edgar Allan Poe is credited with initiating the modern detective story, developing the Gothic horror story, and being a significant early forerunner of the science fiction form. Poe’s literary criticism, which put great stress upon correctness of language, metre, and structure and the importance of achieving a unity of mood or effect, shaped literary theory.

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”