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The Gilded Age' Season 2 True Story: How Petty Rich People Drama Built the Metropolitan Opera House Southern Charm' Alum Chelsea Meissner Confirms The Birth Of Her First Child: "One Month Postpartum" Graniteville Rd, Westford, Massachusetts; http://www.eapoe.org/works/letters/p4811160.htm; http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/english/poebostonexhibit/poeslife/49.html I wanted to tell a formative Poe story, where he is warm and witty and prone to poetic and romantic fantasy, and someone we’re not accustomed to seeing on the screen,” the director told Deadline about the foundations of his fictionalized version of the poet. Thus, Poe in ‘The Pale Blue Eye’ can be considered a fictional character based on the real-life poet’s reality.

The blank wall of the eastern gable was relieved by stairs (with a balustrade) running diagonally across it — the ascent being from the south. Under cover of the widely projecting eave these steps gave access to a door leading to the garret, or rather loft — for it was lighted only by a single window to the north, and seemed to have been intended as a store-room. Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque" - A collection of Poe's short stories, including "The Fall of the House of Usher,""The Masque of the Red Death," and "The Murders in the Rue Morgue." First published simply as "Ballad" in the January 1837 edition of the Southern Literary Messenger, it was later retitled as "Bridal Ballad" when it was printed in the July 31, 1841 edition of the Saturday Evening Post. The poem is unusual for Poe because it is written in the voice of a woman, specifically a recently married bride. Despite her reassurances that she is "happy," the poem has a somber tone as it recounts a previous love who has died. In marrying, she has broken her vow to this previous lover to love him eternally. [5]

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Edgar Allan Poe was a master of macabre and suspenseful poetry. Some of his most famous poems include:What I really enjoyed was the fact that yes, he’s such an iconic character, but we’re looking very much at how he became that person. What were the moments in his life that turned him into the person everyone responds to now,” Melling tells Den of Geek. “Yes, he turns into this sort of very moody, somber character that everyone associates him with. But how do we get there?

Quinn, Arthur Hobson (1998). Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical Biography. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0-8018-5730-9.

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Written while Poe was at West Point, "Israfel" is a poem in eight stanzas of varying lengths that was first published in April 1831 in Poems of Edgar A. Poe. It was re-worked and republished for the August 1836 issue of the Southern Literary Messenger. In an introduction to the poem, Poe says that Israfel is described in the Koran as an angel whose heart is a lute and who has "the sweetest voice of all God's creatures." His song quiets the stars, the poem says, while the Earth-bound poet is limited in his own "music". Poe's friend Thomas Holley Chivers said "Israfil" comes the closest to matching Poe's ideal of the art of poetry. [29] For Annie" was written for Nancy L. (Heywood) Richmond (whom Poe called Annie) of Westford, Massachusetts. [19] Richmond was married to Charles B. Richmond of Lowell, Massachusetts, and Poe developed a strong platonic, though complicated, relationship with her. It was at Nancy's (Heywood) family farm in Westford, Massachusetts [20] that Poe would stay, at the invitation of the Lowell couple, while lecturing in Lowell. [21] It was here that the relationship developed. He even wrote to her of purchasing a "cottage" in Westford just to be closer to her and her family. [22] The poem was first set to be published on April 28, 1849 in the journal Flag of our Union, which Poe said was a "paper for which sheer necessity compels me to write." Fearing its publication there would consign it "to the tomb of the Capulets," he sent it to Nathaniel Parker Willis for publication in the Home Journal on the same day as Flag of Our Union. [23] The poem talks about an illness from which Richmond helped Poe recover. It speaks about "the fever called 'Living'" that has been conquered, ending his "moaning and groaning" and his "sighing and sobbing." In a letter dated March 23, 1849, Poe sent the poem he wrote to Richmond saying, "I think the lines 'For Annie' (those I now send) much the best I have ever written." [24] The Cask of Amontillado and Other Tales" - A collection of Poe's short stories, including "The Cask of Amontillado,""The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar," and "The Oval Portrait." Poe had a troubled personal life, marked by financial struggles, alcoholism, and the loss of several loved ones, including his wife Virginia, who died of tuberculosis at a young age. Poe died in mysterious circumstances in Baltimore, Maryland, on October 7, 1849, at the age of 40. Huxley, Aldous (1967). "Vulgarity in Literature". In Regan, Robert (ed.). Poe: A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall. p. 37.