Griswold somehow became Poe's literary executor and attempted to destroy his enemy's reputation after his death.

Poe's writing reflects his literary theories, which he presented in his criticism and also in essays such as " The Poetic Principle ".

A favorite target of Poe's criticism was Boston's then acclaimed poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, who was often defended by his literary friends in what would later be called " The Longfellow War ".

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

Especially influential here has been the work of Jacques Lacan, an avid reader of literature who used literary examples as illustrations of important concepts in his work ( for instance, Lacan argued with Jacques Derrida over the interpretation of Edgar Allan Poe's " The Purloined Letter ").

Later works include Laurence Sterne's eighteenth-century psychological novel Tristam Shandy, while in the nineteenth-century it has been suggested that Edgar Allan Poe's short story " The Tell-Tale Heart " foreshadows this literary technique .< ref >< http :// www. britannica. com / EBchecked / topic / 1785800 / The-Tell-Tale-Heart >.</ ref > Because of his renunciation of chronology in favor of free association, Édouard Dujardin's Les Lauriers Sont Coupés ( 1887 ) is also an important precursor to the stream of consciousness narratives of James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, and Joyce is believed to have known this work.

It was translated into Russian from that version two years later, marking Poe's literary debut in that country.

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.

The reviewer considered it a literary hoax and called it an " impudent attempt at humbugging the public " and regretted " Mr. Poe's name in connexion with such a mass of ignorance and effrontery ".

Poe asked his foster-father John Allan to subsidize the printing but, not supportive of Poe's literary pursuits, he refused.

Though it is generally considered a literary work, some of Poe's ideas anticipate discoveries of the 20th century.

Poe's literary rival Rufus Wilmot Griswold, however, voiced a high opinion of the story and considered it an example of Poe's cunning intellect.

It was included by Rufus Wilmot Griswold in the tenth edition of The Poets and Poetry of America in 1850, the year after Poe's death, as an example of Poe's best poetry.

Rufus Wilmot Griswold: Poe's Literary Executor.

Griswold depicted Poe as a depraved, drunk, drug-addled madman and included Poe's letters as evidence.

Though Sartain's was the first authorized printing in January 1850, Griswold was the first to publish it on October 9, 1849, two days after Poe's death as part of his obituary of Poe in the New York Daily Tribune.

The competition between Griswold and Poe for Osgood may have led to their infamous rivalry, best exemplified in Griswold's character assassination of Poe after Poe's death.

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.

Although Sherlock Holmes is not the original fiction detective ( he was influenced by Poe's Dupin and Gaboriau's Lecoq ), his name has become a byword for the part.

Poe's regiment was posted to Fort Moultrie in Charleston, South Carolina and traveled by ship on the brig Waltham on November 8, 1827.

" The journal was never produced before Poe's death.

One theory, dating from 1872, indicates that cooping – in which unwilling citizens who were forced to vote for a particular candidate were occasionally killed – was the cause of Poe's death.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle said, " Each Poe's detective stories is a root from which a whole literature has developed .... Where was the detective story until Poe breathed the breath of life into it?

One of the most notable of these was Lizzie Doten, who in 1863 published Poems from the Inner Life, in which she claimed to have " received " new compositions by Poe's spirit.

Poe's success in cryptography relied not so much on his knowledge of that field ( his method was limited to the simple substitution cryptogram ), as on his knowledge of the magazine and newspaper culture.

The Poe Toaster's last appearance was on January 19, 2009, the day of Poe's bicentennial.

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:

Interpreting this standard nowadays is problematic, since the expected length of " one sitting " may now be briefer than it was in Poe's era.

* In 1997, a compilation of Poe's work was released on a double CD entitled Closed on Account of Rabies, with various celebrities lending their voices to the tales.

One of the suspected writers of that hoax, Richard Adams Locke, was Poe's editor at the time " The Balloon-Hoax " was published.

The Pacific was crossed in three days by unmanned Japanese " fire balloons " in 1944, exactly 100 years after Poe's story.

The epigraph was not Poe's invention ; such an inscription had been reported, no later than 1803, as having been composed with the intention ( possibly facetious ) of having it placed on the site, and it had appeared, without attribution, as an item of trivia in the 1836 Southern Literary Messenger, a periodical to which Poe contributed.

Charles Baudelaire, a noted French writer who translated Poe's works into French and who was largely inspired by him, said that the building on the site of the Old Jacobin Club had no gates and, therefore, no inscription.

It has also been suggested that Poe's " pit " was inspired by a translation of the Koran ( Poe had referenced the Koran also in " Al Aaraaf " and " Israfel ") by George Sale.

* Internet searches yield some other sites with fragmentary information, although a lot is derived from Poe's works, and most of the rest from Rerum Moscoviticarum Commentarii-but since this was the major work of the time in that field, this is not surprising.

According to the show, her brother is Poe De Spell, who was transformed into a raven and serves as her magical familiar – this is a reference to Edgar Allan Poe's poem " The Raven ".

Poe's most notable role was in the episode Magica's Shadow War, in which a trapped Magica sent him out to find help in one scene.

In Brief Lives, she persuades a man to give the dancer Tiffany money, when Tiffany would later be the only mortal to survive the explosion of the building in which she was dancing ; in The Kindly Ones, she knows full well that her brother is in trouble and unsuccessfully tries to persuade him to help her find Barnabas ; also, when read the quote ' Quoth the Raven ', from Edgar Allan Poe's poem, " The Raven ", she says ' Whatever ', which, down to the pronounced ' ev ' had been and would be said by Matthew the Raven throughout the book.

The copy was made by William Abbott Pratt circa 1854 from an original he made two weeks before Poe's 1849 death.

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 ).

" 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 ".

Before entering West Point, Poe moved back to Baltimore for a time, to stay with his widowed aunt Maria Clemm, her daughter, Virginia Eliza Clemm ( Poe's first cousin ), his brother Henry, and his invalid grandmother Elizabeth Cairnes Poe.

It is believed that only 12 copies of Poe's first book, Tamerlane and Other Poems, have survived.

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

This was closely followed by an illustrations for an edition of Edgar Allan Poe's Tales of Mystery and Imagination: the first version of that title was restricted to monotone illustrations, while a second iteration with 8 colour plates and more than 24 monotone images was published in 1923.

Treasure maps have taken on numerous permutations in literature and film, such as the stereotypical tattered chart with an over-sized " X " ( as in " X marks the spot ") to denote the treasure's location, first made popular by Robert Louis Stevenson in Treasure Island ( 1883 ), a cryptic puzzle ( in Edgar Allan Poe's " The Gold-Bug " ( 1843 )), or a tattoo as seen in the video game The Space Adventure-Cobra: The Legendary Bandit ( 1991 ) and the film Waterworld ( 1995 ).

The title of the album is taken from a popular title for a collection of Poe's macabre tales of the same name, Tales of Mystery & Imagination, first published in 1908 and reprinted many times since.

Although Moonstone is often seen as the first detective novel, Edgar Allan Poe's short story mysteries, The Murders in the Rue Morgue ( 1841 ) and The Purloined Letter ( 1845 ) were published before The Moonstone.

It consisted of two monologues ; the first was an adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's short story " The Tell-Tale Heart " and the second was a piece written by Berkoff called ' Dog ', which was a comedy about a loud-mouthed football fan and his dog.

" The Gold-Bug " was republished as the first story in the Wiley & Putnam collection of Poe's Tales in June 1845, followed by " The Black Cat " and ten other stories.

It was first published separately in Graham's Magazine in 1843, but quickly became associated with Poe's short story " Ligeia " after Poe added the poem to a revised publication of the story in 1845.

The first chapter features Pym's sloop named the Ariel, the name of a character once played by Poe's mother Eliza Poe.

George Rex Graham, a friend and former employer of Poe, declined Poe's offer to be the first to print " The Raven ".

Facsimile of Poe's original manuscript for " The Murders in the Rue Morgue ", the first appearance of C. Auguste Dupin

Dupin made his first appearance in Poe's " The Murders in the Rue Morgue " ( 1841 ), widely considered the first detective fiction story.

While discussing Dupin's method in the light of Charles Sanders Peirce's logic of making good guesses or abductive reasoning, Nancy Harrowitz first quotes Poe's definition of analysis and then shows how " Poe the semiotician is running the gamut of possibilities here inferences, reasoning backwards, visual, sensual and aural signs, reading faces.

Many tropes that would later become commonplace in detective fiction first appeared in Poe's stories: the eccentric but brilliant detective, the bumbling constabulary, the first-person narration by a close personal friend.

" William Wilson " is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1839, with a setting inspired by Poe's formative years outside of London.

This was the first translation of Poe's work to a language other than English and marked Poe's introduction to France.