Hello Everyone,
The English Enthusiasts admire the works of Mr. Edgar Allen Poe. He was a prolific author who dabbled in many forms and genres of literature.
Poe was a critic of other literary greats of his time. He critiqued Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and many others.
He wrote and published poems such as, Annabel Lee, The Black Cat, The Cask of Amontillado, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Tell-Tale Heart, and many many more. He wrote one novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym.
Poe is credited with inventing the modern detective story when he dreamed up C. August Dupin, the detective character in The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Mystery of Marie Roget, and The Purloined Letter.
This year Baltimore celebrated Poe’s 200th birthday and 160th year after his death with a reburial of his “corpse.”
The New York Times created a slide show of the great Poe. The link to view it is http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/01/16/books/eapoe-SLIDE-SHOW-01-17-2009_index.html
You can also check out the website of the Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore. That link is http://www.eapoe.org/index.htm
Video of a round table discussion of Poe.
