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

He was born as Edgar Poe in Boston, Massachusetts ; he was orphaned young when his mother died shortly after his father abandoned the family.

This plaque marks the approximate location where Edgar Poe was born in Boston, Massachusetts.

He was born Edgar Poe in Boston, Massachusetts, on January 19, 1809, the second child of English-born actress Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins Poe and actor David Poe, Jr.

In the June 6, 1840 issue of Philadelphia's Saturday Evening Post, Poe bought advertising space for his prospectus: " Prospectus of the Penn Magazine, a Monthly Literary journal to be edited and published in the city of Philadelphia by Edgar A.

Edgar may have been named after a character in William Shakespeare's King Lear, a play the couple was performing in 1809.

An adventure story that may have influenced Edgar Rice Burroughs's later books.

Other theories of the word's origin suggest that it may derive from Mortimer Snerd, Edgar Bergen's ventriloquist dummy, or the Northern Electric Research and Development ( N. E. R .& D .) Laboratories in Ontario ( now Nortel ).

Edgar may have been involved in the abortive rebellion of the Earls Edwin and Morcar in 1068 ; in any case, in that year he fled with his mother and sisters to the court of King Malcolm III Canmore of Scotland.

William of Malmesbury recorded that Edgar made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem in 1102, and it may be that Orderic's report is the product of confusion, conflating the expedition of the English fleet with Edgar's later journey.

Another possible influence was thought to be a character in the Edgar Rice Burroughs fantasy novel H. R. H. The Rider which features a " Prince Boris of Karlova ", but as the novel was not published until 1915, the influence may be backward, that Burroughs saw Karloff in a play and adapted the name for the character.

Edwin and Morcar again submitted, while Gospatric fled to Scotland, as did Edgar the Atheling and his family, who may have been involved in these revolts.

( This episode may have influenced Edgar Allan Poe's short story " Hop-Frog ".

It may also be a reference to Edgar Allan Poe.

Possible influences may include Edgar Allan Poe's " The Masque of the Red Death ".

It may be that Edgar here regulated the frontier between the southern lands of the kingdom of Alba and the northern lands of his English kingdom.

According to historian Sorin Antohi, Eliade may have actually encouraged Protochronists such as Edgar Papu to carry out research which resulted in the claim that medieval Romanians had anticipated the Renaissance.

" J. Edgar Hoover, director of the U. S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, may have found the Lenin connection intriguing ; it was alleged the FBI conducted surveillance at the 1970 demonstrations.

According to Edgar and Schmidt, the added section potentially removes the " intent " to harm or aid requirement and may make " mere retention " of information a crime no matter what the intent, covering even former government officials writing their memoirs.

He may belong to as many unions or organizations as he chooses, but we think our employees at Homestead Steel Works would fare much better working under the system in vogue at Edgar Thomson and Duquesne.

" Classical antiquity " may refer also to an idealized vision among later people of what was, in Edgar Allan Poe's words, " the glory that was Greece, the grandeur that was Rome!

First described by E. S. Davenport and Edgar Bain, it is one of the decomposition products that may form when austenite ( the face centered cubic crystal structure of iron ) is cooled past a critical temperature of 727 ° C ( about 1340 ° F ).

It may be alluded to in Shakespeare's King Lear ( III, vi ) when Edgar, masquerading as Mad Tom, says:

The term was popularized in the 1896 US Presidential Election, when William McKinley supporters took to wearing gold lapel pins, gold neckties, and gold headbands in a demonstration of support for gold against the " silver menace ", though the term's original use may have been in Edgar Allan Poe's 1843 story " The Gold-Bug ," about a cryptographic treasure map.

Edgar Bronfman may refer to:

Eliza performed until 10 days before Edgar's birth and may have named her second son after the Mr. Edgar who led the Charleston Comedians.

The early loss of his mother and other women, including his wife Virginia, may also have inspired Edgar Poe's often-used literary theme of dying women.

" Thus, when Theoharis and company were in the middle of fighting in court to obtain J. Edgar Hoover files, they may well have benefited from Landano and also Janet Reno's assertions of the government's need for " greater openness " and " discretionary releases " in 1993

* The alias that Olaf uses, Detective Dupin, may be a reference to C. Auguste Dupin, a fictional detective character created by Edgar Allan Poe.