In effect, Mr. Stedman pronounces him a critic of exceptional ability ... In spite of his scorn for their pretensions, Edgar Allan Poe, in his way, was as deeply affected by the enthusiasm ...

In the annals of American literary culture, few have left as bold a mark as Edgar Allan Poe. In 1841, with the locked-room mystery “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” Poe invented the genre of ...

To borrow a current idiom, Edgar Allan Poe was a lot. Which means ... he managed to carve out a fugitive living as poet, critic and short-story writer. Along the way, he found the family he ...

Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, editor, poet and literary critic. The Boston native only lived until he was 40 years ...

Yet it was not always so. The roots of modern detective fiction go back over 150 years to a Boston-born master of the macabre, Edgar Allan Poe. And the most shocking true-crime story in Poe's day ...

I n the annals of American literary culture, few have left as bold a mark as Edgar Allan Poe. In 1841, with the locked-room mystery “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” Poe invent ...