1. Edgar Allan Poe Risha Smith Research Paper English 1102

2. Poe portrait goes on display in Md. January 23, 2010 BALTIMORE (AP) -- Edgar Allan Poe's pale, death-haunted image, with his sunken eyes, a trim mustache and unruly mop of curly hair had endured for more than 150 years. But a portrait being shown publicly for the first time Saturday captures a different figure. Scholars say Poe looked far more vigorous, perhaps even dashing, in his earlier years than he does in the well-known series of daguerreotypes taken in the final years of his life. The more robust Poe is captured in a small watercolor by A.C. Smith, one of just three surviving portraits of the author. Screenwriters aim to preserve the spirit of Poe Just in time for Edgar Allan Poe's birthday on Wednesday, Hollywood filmmakers in Belgrade have wrapped an extravagant present. Last week, director James McTeigue, who guided Natalie Portman through "V for Vendetta," completed principal photography on "The Raven," a thriller starring John Cusack as Baltimore's classic yet still controversial man of letters. In this ambitious pastiche, set in the last five days of his life, Poe is more than a poet, critic and fiction writer. He becomes a detective seeking a serial killer who has designed his crimes to echo Poe's stories. Boston has little claim to Poe's legacy January 26, 2011 I just finished reading Paul Lewis' tongue-in-cheek letter to the editor of The Sun ( "Maybe the Toaster finally figured out where Poe was born," Jan. 23), in which he comments on Edgar Allan Poe's mysterious toaster presumably resurfacing in Boston. I at first took umbrage at the tone of the letter, taking Mr. Lewis' comment "...when Poe died there during what was supposed to be a brief stopover... " as an insult to Baltimore, implying that Baltimore has little, if any, claim to Poe's legacy. Poe portrait goes on display in Md. January 23, 2010 BALTIMORE (AP) -- Edgar Allan Poe's pale, death-haunted image, with his sunken eyes, a trim mustache and unruly mop of curly hair had endured for more than 150 years. But a portrait being shown publicly for the first time Saturday captures a different figure. Scholars say Poe looked far more vigorous, perhaps even dashing, in his earlier years than he does in the well-known series of daguerreotypes taken in the final years of his life. The more robust Poe is captured in a small watercolor by A.C. Smith, one of just three surviving portraits of the author.

3. New York Times The Poe House, And Its Mask Of Red Bricks By DENNY LEE It was a pact that Edgar Allan Poe himself might have relished. The little red house at 85 West Third Street, where Poe lived in 1844 and 1845, would be ripped from its foundation, and its facade skinned off and rebuilt inside a coffin of new bricks. October 19, 2003nyregionNews Fear! Dread! Torment! Why Poe's Fans Are Obsessive By JIM O'GRADY As surely as ravens speak English and perch indoors, the reader of an Edgar Allan Poe poem or story may expect to encounter characters in the grip of extreme experience. Murder is common, as is madness, and life itself at times can seem a horror. All this makes him a classic American writer, according to the novelist E. L. Doctorow, who said ''Poe is one of the writers who make us who we are.'' February 18, 2001booksNews Underestimate Poe's Legacy? Nevermore By MICHAEL FRANK Reviewing the life and career of Edgar Allan Poe can be a hall-of-mirrors-like experience. There are as many Poes, it seems, as there are people to make, calumniate and rehabilitate his reputation, with some observers doing double duty as both foe and friend. March 19, 1999artsNews Beyond the Pale with Edgar Allan Poe By MARILYNNE ROBINSON Anyone aware of the difficulties of Edgar Allan Poe's life must wish to see his reputation prosper. Yet he alone among the Immortals calls up the sort of smirk otherwise reserved for writers who are not only living but also local. Anyone who confesses an admiration for Poe learns quickly that he is not respectable, because he set out to create powerful responses in his readers by methods already conventional when he used them. February 8, 1987artsNews

4. A New Poe LetterHitherto Unpublished Note Deals With Strange CryptogramBy J. H. Whitty Edgar Allan Poe furnishes a never flagging source of interest to all Virginians and a hitherto unpublished letter lying perdu to Poe's biographers for many years is released today by the Valentine Museum. The museum is also the repository of the important twenty-seven letters from Poe to his early patron, John Allan, known as the "Poe-Allan Letters.“ This newly discovered brief note of the famous poet is written in the well-known rounded hand used by him in his later years. The study of cryptograms and secret writing was Poe's strongest forte, and his published articles on the subject are a source of wonder to many of his readers and considered by some as savoring toward black magic. Poe read Aaron Burr's famous code letters with ease, and maintained that he could decipher these puzzles in seven languages. He explained the card cipher, the printed book cipher, and the different methods of conveying meaning by dots, dashes and figures. His references to old books on the subject dated as far back as 1586. Poe asserted that one alphabet was not more perplexing than another; that the entire art of solution is found in the general principles of the formation of language itself, and thus is altogether independent of the particular laws which govern any cipher or the construction of its key. In all likelihood Poe's studies in this subject formed the germs for his well-known story of "The Gold Bug," as well as some of his later detective fiction.

5. DID RABIES FELL EDGAR ALLAN POE? When literary figure Edgar Allan Poe collapsed in front of Ryan's Saloon in Baltimore on Oct. 3, 1849, everyone assumed the writer's boozy lifestyle had finally taken its toll. Not so, says R. Michael Benitez of the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore. Benitez' analysis of historical records shows that Poe probably died of rabies, a viral disease of the central nervous system. Poe was taken to a hospital in Baltimore, where he suffered from delirium and tremors, both common in alcoholics who have not had a drink for 5 to 10 hours. After 3 days, he recovered briefly, then lapsed into delirium and confusion. The writer remained in this state until his death on Oct. 7, 1849. The relapsing nature of Poe's illness doesn't match the symptoms of alcohol withdrawal, Benitez says. Furthermore, historical evidence suggests that Poe had abstained from alcohol for the 6 months prior to his collapse. He refused an alcoholic drink in the hospital. The symptoms of Poe's illness mirror those of a rabies infection, Benitez notes in the September Maryland Medical Journal. Even more telling, Poe had great difficulty drinking water during his hospital stay. Rabies produces involuntary spasms of the throat that make swallowing difficult. Poe was a well-known animal lover and was especially fond of cats, which can transmit the rabies virus. There was no record of an animal bite preceding Poe's ailment, but the illness can take more than a year to surface, Benitez says.

6. The Assignation ILL-FATED and mysterious man ! - bewildered in the brilliancy of thine own imagination, and fallen in the flames of thine own youth ! Again in fancy I behold thee ! Once more thy form hath risen before me ! - not - oh not as thou art - in the cold valley and shadow - but as thou shouldst be - squandering away a life of magnificent meditation in that city of dim visions, thine own Venice - which is a star-beloved Elysium of the sea, and the wide windows of whose Palladian palaces look down with a deep and bitter meaning upon the secrets of her silent waters. Yes ! I repeat it - as thou shouldst be . There are surely other worlds than this - other thoughts than the thoughts of the multitude - other speculations than the speculations of the sophist. Who then shall call thy conduct into question ? who blame thee for thy visionary hours, or denounce those occupations as a wasting away of life, which were but the overflowings of thine everlasting energies ? It was at Venice, beneath the covered archway there called the Ponte di Sospiri , that I met for the third or fourth time the person of whom I speak. It is with a confused recollection that I bring to mind the circumstances of that meeting. Yet I remember - ah ! how should I forget ? - the deep midnight, the Bridge of Sighs, the beauty of woman, and the Genius of Romance that stalked up and down the narrow canal. It was a night of unusual gloom. The great clock of the Piazza had sounded the fifth hour of the Italian evening. The square of the Campanile lay silent and deserted, and the lights in the old Ducal Palace were dying fast away. I was returning home from the Piazetta, by way of the Grand Canal. But as my gondola arrived opposite the mouth of the canal San Marco, a female voice from its recesses broke suddenly upon the night, in one wild, hysterical, and long continued shriek. Startled at the sound, I sprang upon my feet : while the gondolier, letting slip his single oar, lost it in the pitchy darkness beyond a chance of recovery, and we were consequently left to the guidance of the current which here sets from the greater into the smaller channel. Like some huge and sable-feathered condor, we were slowly drifting down towards the Bridge of Sighs, when a thousand flambeaux flashing from the windows, and down the staircases of the Ducal Palace, turned all at once that deep gloom into a livid and preternatural day.

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