and James Russell Lowell and Edgar Allan Poe of nineteenth century American letters.

For his part Conan Doyle acknowledged basing his detective stories on the model of Edgar Allan Poe's C. Auguste Dupin, and his anonymous narrator, and basing his character Sherlock Holmes on Joseph Bell, who in his use of " ratiocination " prefigured Poirot's reliance on his " little grey cells ".

He even writes a book about mystery fiction in which he deals sternly with Edgar Allan Poe and Wilkie Collins.

Woolfson, a songwriter and composer, was working as a session pianist ; he had also composed material for a concept album idea based on the work of Edgar Allan Poe.

Recalling his earlier Edgar Allan Poe material, Woolfson saw a way to combine his and Parsons ' respective talents.

Parsons released titles under his name ( Try Anything Once, On Air, The Time Machine, and A Valid Path ), while Woolfson made concept albums named Freudiana ( about Sigmund Freud's work on psychology ) and Poe: More Tales of Mystery and Imagination ( continuing from the Alan Parsons Project's first album about Edgar Allan Poe's literature ).

The name was inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's poem The Raven, as Poe lived for a time in Baltimore, died there in 1849, and is buried there.

The chosen name, " Ravens ," alludes to the famous poem The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe, who spent the early part of his career in Baltimore, and is also buried there .< ref >

His education began with the reading of Robinson Crusoe ( unabridged ), Gulliver's Travels, the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen and Madame d ' Aulnoy, the Arabian Nights and ( at the age of 13 ) the poems of Edgar Allan Poe.

Like The Black Diamonds, it uses a medieval, Arabian Nights – like setting, and the Arabian Nights, like the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm and the works of Edgar Allan Poe, are known to have strongly influenced Smith's early writing, as did William Beckford's Vathek.

This belief made its contributions to literature in Edgar Allan Poe's " The Gold-Bug ", Washington Irving's The Devil and Tom Walker, Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island and Nelson DeMille's Plum Island.

Daguerreotype of Edgar Allan Poe

" Das Fräulein von Scuderi ", an 1819 short story by E. T. A. Hoffmann, in which Mlle de Scudery establishes the innocence of the police's favorite suspect in the murder of a jeweller, is sometimes cited as the first detective story and a direct influence on Edgar Allan Poe's " The Murders in the Rue Morgue ".

In the sonnet " To Science " by Edgar Allan Poe, science is said to have " dragged Diana from her car ".

# REDIRECT Edgar Allan Poe

The subject of this article should not be confused with a former newspaper correspondent, for who the Edgar Allan Poe Award is named

Edgar Allan Poe ( born Edgar Poe ; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849 ) was an American author, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement.

The Allans served as a foster family and gave him the name " Edgar Allan Poe ", though they never formally adopted him.

Edgar Allan Poe is buried in Baltimore, Maryland.

The day Edgar Allan Poe was buried, a long obituary appeared in the New York Tribune signed " Ludwig ".

The piece began, " Edgar Allan Poe is dead.

Edgar Allan Poe photographed circa 1849

The historical Edgar Allan Poe has appeared as a fictionalized character, often representing the " mad genius " or " tormented artist " and exploiting his personal struggles.

The Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site in Philadelphia is one of several preserved former residences of Poe

Poe's final home is preserved as the Edgar Allan Poe Cottage in the Bronx, New York.

* Edgar Allan Poe's Personal Correspondence Shapell Manuscript Foundation

Illustration for the Stéphane Mallarmé translation of Edgar Allan Poe's " The Raven ", 1875.

In 1875, a book-length French edition of Edgar Allan Poe's " The Raven " included lithographs by Manet and translation by Mallarmé.

Similar wording appears in Edgar Allan Poe's 1831 short story, The Bargain Lost, although not at the very beginning.

At UCLA, Coppola directed a short horror film called “ The Two Christophers ” inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's " William Wilson ".

* Histoires extraordinaires ( 1968 ) ( segment Toby Dammit, based on Edgar Allan Poe's short story " Never Bet the Devil Your Head ")

Guilt is a main theme in John Steinbeck's East of Eden, Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, Tennessee Williams ' A Streetcar Named Desire, William Shakespeare's play Macbeth, Edgar Allan Poe's " The Tell-Tale Heart " and " The Black Cat ", and many other works of literature.

Other notable pre-20th century examples include Giacomo Casanova's 1788 Icosaméron, a 5-volume, 1, 800-page story of a brother and sister who fall into the Earth and discover the subterranean utopia of the Mégamicres, a race of multicolored, hermaphroditic dwarfs ; Symzonia: A Voyage of Discovery by a " Captain Adam Seaborn " ( 1820 ) which reflected the ideas of John Cleves Symmes, Jr .; Edgar Allan Poe's 1838 novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket ; Jules Verne's 1864 novel A Journey to the Center of the Earth, which described a prehistoric subterranean world ; and George Sand's 1884 novel Laura, Voyage dans le Cristal where unseen and giant crystals could be found in the interior of the Earth.

The Gothic tradition continued in the 19th century, in such works as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein ( 1818 ), Edgar Allan Poe's short stories, the works of Sheridan Le Fanu, Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde ( 1886 ), Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray ( 1890 ), and Bram Stoker's Dracula ( 1897 ).

John Abernathy is referenced in Edgar Allan Poe's The Purloined Letter ( 1844 ).

Harrison argues that the first to set out a satisfactory resolution of the paradox was Lord Kelvin, in a little known 1901 paper, and that Edgar Allan Poe's essay Eureka ( 1848 ) curiously anticipated some qualitative aspects of Kelvin's argument:

* Several literary critics have noted the influence of phrenology ( and physiognomy ) in Edgar Allan Poe's fiction.

A classic definition of a short story is that one should be able to read it in one sitting, a point most notably made in Edgar Allan Poe's essay " The Philosophy of Composition " ( 1846 ).

* Pit and the Pendulum-Fully searchable text of Edgar Allan Poe's story.

* Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket ( 1838 ), Chapter 15, has a detailed history and description.

* Van Diemen's Land is mentioned in Edgar Allan Poe's book Narrative of A. Gordon Pym.

* Edgar Allan Poe's short story The Tell-Tale Heart is first published.

When the " Moral Climate Monitors " come to visit, Stendahl and Pikes arrange to kill each of them in ways that allude to different horror masterpieces, culminating in the murder of Inspector Garrett in a sequence reminiscent of Edgar Allan Poe's " The Cask of Amontillado ".