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Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales involving mystery and the macabre. He is widely regarded as one of the central figures of Romanticism and Gothic fiction in the United States and of early American literature.
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culture · American writer and critic (1809–1849) · poet · writer · essayist · literary critic · playwright · journalist · science fiction writer · crime fiction writer · novelist · author · also Edgar Allan Poe, Quarles, Poe
Born 19 January 1809 · Died 7 October 1849 · Q16867
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2026· 15 entries
“s pleas. Allan may not have written to Poe to inform him of his foster mother”
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Legacy obituary: Trent Edward Quarles Obituary (2026) - Cambridge, OH - Thorn-Black Funeral Home, Inc. - Cambridge
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OkDiario: La lección de Edgar Allan Poe, escritor estadounidense del siglo XIX, que sigue vigente después de 180 años...
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The Frederick News-Post: Edgar Allan Poe's Death in Baltimore Bus Tour - The Frederick News-Post
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Eye On Annapolis: Edgar Allan Poe Festival Moves to Lexington Market for 2026 Baltimore Celebration
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São Paulo Secreto: With only a few dates in São Paulo: Amid candles, dim lighting, and artisanal cocktails, a secret bar in São Paulo brings Edgar Allan Poe’s work to life in four immersive acts
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São Paulo Secreto: El Edgar Allan Poe Speakeasy llega a São Paulo
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Secret Adelaide: This Gothic cocktail experience in Adelaide brings Edgar Allan Poe to life — with immersive live storytelling and four bespoke cocktails
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Secret Atlanta: Oakland Cemetery is hosting a pop-up Edgar Allan Poe Speakeasy
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Style Weekly: The Black Cat Ball, gala to support The Edgar Allan Poe House & Museum
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Hoodline: Edgar Allan Poe Returns to Garfield's Mentor Home for Gothic Evening Shows
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Secret Atlanta: El cementerio de Oakland acoge un «Edgar Allan Poe Speakeasy» temporal
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cleveland.com: Edgar Allan Poe performances return to James A. Garfield National Historic Site in Mentor
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OkDiario: La reflexión de Edgar Allan Poe, escritor fallecido en 1849, sobre la sabiduría: «El creyente es feliz, el ...
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2025· 1 entry
Wall Street Journal: ‘Edgar Allan Poe’ Review: The Soul Within the Shadow
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2024· 4 entries
insider.si.edu: The Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe May Never Be Solved
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People: Edgar Allan Poe Died 175 Years Ago Today. We Still Don't Know How
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Yahoo: 75 Edgar Allan Poe Quotes on Life, Love and Writing
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Yahoo: How Edgar Allan Poe became the darling of the maligned and misunderstood
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2023· 3 entries
The Guardian: The Fall of the House of Usher review – a gleefully terrifying take on Edgar Allan Poe
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NPR: How I learned to stop worrying and love Edgar Allan Poe
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Collider: A Brief History of Edgar Allan Poe's Haunting On-Screen Presence
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2022· 1 entry
The Guardian: Edgar Allan Poe’s pocket watch among donations to museum
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2021· 1 entry
fact checker rated the claim “Edgar Allan Poe died from alcoholism or rabies or cooping” doubtful.
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2018· 2 entries
The Guardian: The Tell-Tale Heart review – Poe story becomes brilliantly creepy stage shocker
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The Guardian: Clear White Light review – Edgar Allan Poe meets the NHS
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2016· 1 entry
Snopes rated the claim “A photograph shows Abraham posing with author Edgar Allan Poe.” False.
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2013· 1 entry
The Guardian cited Pym as one of the greatest novels ever written in the English language, and noted its influence on later authors such as Doyle, Henry James, B
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2009· 2 entries
The day of Poe's bicentennial
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The intersection of Charles and Boylston streets (two blocks north of his birthplace) was designated "Edgar Allan Poe Square"
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2007· 1 entry
That he had started the tradition in 1949
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1863· 1 entry
A medium named Lizzie Doten published Poems of the Inner Life, which compiled several poems she claimed were written by the channeled spirits of dead authors
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1849· 41 entries
Died 1849-10-07.
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Poe was found semiconscious in Baltimore, "in great distress, and
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“no poem will be so great, so noble, so truly worthy of the name of a poem, as that which has been written solely for the pleasure of writing a poem.”
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“I have great faith in fools – self-confidence my friends will call it. (ang.)”
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“Zazwyczaj ludzie podleją stopniowo.”
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“Nunca dude de su amor, y me era mas fácil comprender que, en un pecho como el suyo, el amor no reinaba como una pasión ordinaria: pero solo en la muerte medí toda la intensidad de sus sentimientos.”
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“No man who ever lived knows any more about the hereafter, Barton, than you and I ; and all religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of chicanery, fear, greed, imagination and poetry.”
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“Cuando un loco parece completamente sensato es ya el momento de ponerle la camisa de fuerza.”
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“El cuervo dijo "Nunca más.”
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“Tudo o que vemos ou parecemos / não passa de um sonho dentro de um sonho.”
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“El demonio del mal es uno de los instintos primeros del corazón humano.”
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“El hombre que quiera contemplar frente a frente la gloria de Dios en la Tierra, debe contemplarla en soledad.”
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“Men usually grow base by degrees. From me, in an instant, all virtue dropped bodily as a mantle. (ang.)”
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“El placer positivo es una simple idea, para ser felices hasta cierto punto, debimos haber perecido hasta ese cierto punto.”
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“Zwyciężyłeś i przeto ulegam. Atoli odtąd umarłeś na równi ze mną – umarłeś dla Ziemi, dla Nieba i dla Nadziei! We mnie istniałeś i – spojrzyj w moją śmierć, spojrzyj wskroś tej, która jest twoją, postaci, – jak doszczętnie zamordowałeś siebie samego!”
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“El poder analítico no debe confundirse con el simple ingenio, porque mientras el analista es necesariamente ingenioso, el hombre ingenioso está con frecuencia notablemente incapacitado para el análisis.”
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“Es dudoso que el género humano logre crear un enigma que el mismo ingenio humano no resuelva.”
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“Es imposible explicar como la idea penetró mi cerebro; pero, una vez adentrada, me acosó día y noche.”
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“A przez palce moje, ach,Przesypuje mi się piach – A ja w łzach, ja tonę w łzach...”
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“Existen dos cuerpos: el rudimentario y el completo, ambos corresponden a las condiciones de la crisálida y la mariposa. lo que llamamos "muerte" es tan solo la penosa metamorfosis.”
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“They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
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“La ciencia no nos ha enseñado aún si la locura es o no lo más sublime de la inteligencia.”
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“Byłaś mi wszystkiem, o miłości moja,Za czem duch tęskni jakby za mirażem,Czarowną wyspą, o miłości moja,I żywej wody źródłem i ołtarzem.”
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“La felicidad no está en la ciencia, sino en la adquisición de la ciencia.”
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“La música, cuando va combinada con una idea placentera, es poesía. Sin la idea, es solamente música. Y la idea, sin la música, es prosa, por su propia precisión.”
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“Los cabellos grises son los archivos del pasado.”
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“Człowiek nie ustępowałby aniołom i nie podlegałby wcale śmierci, gdyby nie słabość wątłej jego woli.”
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“Los que sueñan de día son conscientes de muchas cosas que escapan a los que sueñan sólo de noche.”
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“Mi imaginación estaba libre de nuevo de cualquier obstáculo, divagaba a su antojo entre las maravillas multiformes de un planeta tenebroso y variable.”
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“They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. (ang.)”
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“No hay inmaterialidad, está es solo una palabra. lo que no es materia no es nada, a menos que las cualidades sean cosas.”
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“If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered. (ang.)”
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“¿No tenemos una perpetua inclinación, pese a la excelencia de nuestro juicio, a violar lo que es la ley, simplemente porque comprendemos que es la ley?.”
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“No tengo intención de defender que mi observación era profunda; yo mismo no la creía tan profunda: pero he observado que el efecto de nuestras palabras no siempre es proporcional a la importancia que tienen para nosotros mismos.”
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“Si se me pidiera que definiera en pocas palabras el término arte, lo llamaría la reproducción de lo que los sentidos perciben en la naturaleza a través del velo del alma.”
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“Not in knowledge is happiness, but in the acquisition of knowledge! (ang.)”
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“Todas las cosas son buenas o malas por la comparación, un análisis preciso mostrara que el placer, en todos los casos, es el reverso del dolor.”
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“Todo lo que vemos o parecemos es solamente un sueño dentro de un sueño». [All that we see or seem / Is but a dream within a dream].”
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“Są takie bezcielesne rzeczy, są zjawiska,Co mają byt podwójny…”
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“Todo movimiento, cualquiera que sea su causa, es creador.”
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“Y en tales ocasiones su belleza- tal vez la veía así en mi imaginación ferviente.”
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1848· 1 entry
Included a cosmological theory that presaged the Big Bang theory by 80 years, as well as the first plausible solution to Olbers' paradox
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1846· 3 entries
Proposed separating the Appalachian South from the United States and naming it the "United States of Alleghania"
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“The Philosophy of Composition”
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And Poe moved to a cottage in Fordham, New York, in the Bronx
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1845· 2 entries
Poe's poem, "The Raven", appeared in the Evening Mirror and quickly became a popular sensation
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“The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether”
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1843· 1 entry
“You have conquered, and I yield. Yet, henceforward art thou also dead—dead to the World, to Heaven and to Hope! In me didst thou exist—and, in my death, see by this image, which is thine own, how utterly thou hast murdered thyself.”
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1841· 3 entries
“The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all these more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind.”
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Career landmark: editor-in-chief (1841–1842).
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“The Murders in the Rue Morgue”
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1839· 2 entries
“The Fall of the House of Usher”
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The collection Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque was published in two volumes, though Poe received little remuneration from it and the volumes received generally mixed reviews
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1838· 1 entry
Poe relocated to Philadelphia, where he lived at five different residences between 1838 and 1844, one of which at 532 N
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1836· 2 entries
And Virginia were officially married at a Presbyterian wedding ceremony performed by Amasa Converse at their Richmond boarding house, with a witness falsely attesting Clemm's age as 21
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When he was 27, he married his 13-year-old cousin, Virginia Clemm
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1835· 2 entries
Though it is unknown if they were actually married at that time
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Poe became assistant editor of the Southern Literary Messenger, but White discharged him within a few weeks, allegedly for being drunk on the job
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1831· 1 entry
Was tried for gross neglect of duty and disobedience of orders for refusing to attend formations, classes, and church
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1829· 1 entry
After securing a replacement to finish his enlistment
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1827· 2 entries
Having enlisted in the United States Army under the assumed name of Edgar A
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At Fort Moultrie, there is a restaurant called Poe's Tavern
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1826· 1 entry
Studied at University of Virginia (1826).
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1824· 1 entry
Served as the lieutenant of the Richmond youth honor guard as the city celebrated the visit of the Marquis de Lafayette
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1810· 2 entries
And when Eliza died the following year, Poe was taken in by John and Frances Allan of Richmond, Virginia
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And his mother died a year later from pulmonary tuberculosis
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1809· 2 entries
The second child of American actor David Poe Jr
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Born 1809-01-19.
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