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Poe and scholar
As Verne scholar William Butcher pointed out, Verne was an early admirer of Poe and his novel Cinq semaines en ballon ( Five Weeks in a Balloon ) was published within a year of his nonfiction book Edgar Poe et ses oeuvres ( Edgar Allan Poe and his Works ).
Poe says that the narrator is a young scholar.
Poe scholar Richard P. Benton has stated his belief that " Poe's protagonist is an Englished version of the French Montrésor " and has argued forcefully that Poe's model for Montresor " was Claude de Bourdeille, Count of Montrésor, the 17th-century political conspirator in the entourage of King Louis XIII's weak-willed brother, Gaston d ' Orléans ".
The " noted intriguer and memoir-writer " was first linked to " The Cask of Amontillado " by Poe scholar Burton R. Pollin.
Poe deciphers hieroglyphics in the novel and scholar Shawn Rosenheim believes this element in the novel served as a precursor to Poe's interest in cryptography.
Many readers were left unsatisfied by this ending because, as Poe descendant and scholar Harry Lee Poe wrote, " it didn't match the kind of clear ending they expected from a novel.
Thomas Ollive Mabbott ( July 6, 1898 – May 15, 1968 ) was an American professor and scholar of literature, perhaps best known for his research on writer Edgar Allan Poe.
Poe scholar and distant relative Harry Lee Poe says it is autobiographical and shows Poe's grief over the recent death of his wife Virginia.
A scholar on Edgar Allan Poe, she wrote a biography and an interpretation of his work.

Poe and Scott
* Edgar Allan Poe Awards: Edgar ; Best Motion Picture, John Paxton ( screenwriter ), Richard Brooks ( author ), Dore Schary ( producer ), Adrian Scott ( associate producer ) and Edward Dmytryk ( director ); 1948.
Scott Connors, 2003 ); Cave of a Thousand Tales by Milt Thomas ( a biography of pulp writer Hugh B. Cave, 2004 ); Other Worlds Than Ours, another collection by Nelson Bond ( 2005 ); and Evermore ( a collection of tales in tribute to Edgar Allan Poe, ed.
The screenplay by Bill Scott and Fred Grable is based on the 1843 short story of the same title by Edgar Allan Poe.
William Henry Leonard Poe lived with his paternal grandparents in Baltimore, Edgar Poe was taken in by John and Frances Allan in Richmond, and Rosalie Poe was adopted by William and Jane Scott Mackenzie in Richmond.
In the late seventies it housed The New Cinema, featuring film and video by independent filmmakers, including Eric Mitchell, Anders Grafstrom, Scott and Beth B, Jim Jarmusch, Charles Ahearn and Amos Poe.

Poe and wrote
Howard would only allow Poe to be discharged if he reconciled with John Allan and wrote a letter to Allan, who was unsympathetic.
Rufus Griswold wrote a biographical article of Poe called " Memoir of the Author ", which he included in an 1850 volume of the collected works.
" Poe once wrote in a letter to Thomas Holley Chivers that he did not dislike Transcendentalists, " only the pretenders and sophists among them.
Beyond horror, Poe also wrote satires, humor tales, and hoaxes.
Poe wrote much of his work using themes aimed specifically at mass-market tastes.
Poe eschewed the scientific method in Eureka and instead wrote from pure intuition.
A plaque suggests that Poe wrote " The Raven " here.
One notable critic of the Bridgewater Treatises was Edgar Allan Poe, who wrote Criticism.
Following the 18th-century development of the novel as a literary form, in the early 19th century, Mary Shelley's books Frankenstein and The Last Man helped define the form of the science fiction novel ; later Edgar Allan Poe wrote a story about a flight to the moon.
Edgar Allan Poe wrote his tales of mystery
Edgar Allan Poe wrote " The Thousand and Second Tale of Scheherazade " ( 1845 ).
Poe wrote the poem as a narrative, without intentionally creating an allegory or falling into didacticism.
The similarity did not go unnoticed: James Russell Lowell in his A Fable for Critics wrote the verse, " Here comes Poe with his raven, like Barnaby Rudge / Three-fifths of him genius and two-fifths sheer fudge.
* The Worthen House: Edgar Allan Poe purportedly visited this tavern and local lore suggests he wrote some of " The Raven " here.
In 1841, the cave became a legend, when Edgar Allan Poe wrote " The Mystery of Marie Roget " about an event that took place there.
In May 1844 Poe wrote to James Russell Lowell that he considered it " perhaps the best of my tales of ratiocination " just before its first publication.
Edgar Allan Poe wrote a story, " Never Bet the Devil Your Head ", in which he embedded elements of deep dislike for transcendentalism, calling its followers " Frogpondians " after the pond on Boston Common.
Writer Edgar Allan Poe wrote a number of stories and poems about premature burial, including a story called " The Premature Burial.
* Edgar Allan Poe wrote a tale called " The Thousand and Second Tale of Scheherazade ".
Despite his personal issues with Fuller, the typically harsh literary critic Edgar Allan Poe wrote of the work as " a book which few women in the country could have written, and no woman in the country would have published, with the exception of Miss Fuller ", noting its " independence " and " unmitigated radicalism ".
Poe biographer John H. Ingram wrote to Sarah Helen Whitman that someone named " Allen " said that Poe worked " in the brickyard ' late in the fall of 1834 '".
Poe wrote his tale, however, as a response to his personal rival Thomas Dunn English.
It was finally diminished by Edgar Allan Poe when he wrote a serious study of the two poets called The Halleck-Rodman Review.
The challenge brought about, as Poe wrote, " a very lively interest among the numerous readers of the journal.

Poe and is
Or you could hope the parachute wouldn't open just so you could say you saw it not open, not because you meant any harm to Starkey Poe in his suit of red underwear, but mainly because you were tired of being an old maid -- a thing which cannot admit when it thinks it might be pregnant, but must stand the dizzy feeling all alone and go on like everything is all right instead of being able to say to somebody in a normal voice: `` I think I'm pregnant ''.
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 >
Also suggested as a possible influence on Poe is ‘ The Secret Cell ’, a short story published in September 1837 by William Evans Burton, describing how a London policeman solves the mystery of a kidnapped girl.
In the sonnet " To Science " by Edgar Allan Poe, science is said to have " dragged Diana from her car ".
The subject of this article should not be confused with a former newspaper correspondent, for who the Edgar Allan Poe Award is named
Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre.
On October 7, 1849, at age 40, Poe died in Baltimore ; the cause of his death is unknown and has been variously attributed to alcohol, brain congestion, cholera, drugs, heart disease, rabies, suicide, tuberculosis, and other agents.
That home, known today as the " Poe Cottage ", is on the southeast corner of the Grand Concourse and Kingsbridge Road.
Edgar Allan Poe is buried in Baltimore, Maryland.
Poe is said to have repeatedly called out the name " Reynolds " on the night before his death, though it is unclear to whom he was referring.
The piece began, " Edgar Allan Poe is dead.
For example, it is now known that Poe was not a drug addict.
In fact, " Metzengerstein ", the first story that Poe is known to have published, and his first foray into horror, was originally intended as a burlesque satirizing the popular genre.
T. S. Eliot said: " It is difficult for us to read that essay without reflecting that if Poe plotted out his poem with such calculation, he might have taken a little more pains over it: the result hardly does credit to the method.
Poe is particularly respected in France, in part due to early translations by Charles Baudelaire.
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?
The Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site in Philadelphia is one of several preserved former residences of Poe
No childhood home of Poe is still standing, including the Allan family's Moldavia estate.
The oldest standing home in Richmond, the Old Stone House, is in use as the Edgar Allan Poe Museum, though Poe never lived there.
The dorm room Poe is believed to have used while studying at the University of Virginia in 1826 is preserved and available for visits.

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