Poe’s most famous poem, “The Raven,” published in 1845—I prefer “The Bells”—papers the eight episodes. Besides the literal raven flitting about in episodes, there is also Roderick Usher’s ...

Poe had moved to Boston, the city where he was born, after leaving his foster parents' Richmond, Virginia, home. The 40-page Tamerlane and Other Poems was inspired by the work of British poet Lord ...

It’s one of the most recognizable (and spookiest) poems in English. When Poe was writing “The Raven,” his wife, Virginia, was suffering from tuberculosis. It was a weird marriage—Virginia was Poe’s ...

MARION, Mass. (AP/WJZ) -- An original manuscript of a poem written by Edgar Allan Poe has sold for $300,000 at an auction in Massachusetts. The Standard Times of New Bedford reports that the ...

Koren Zailckas' latest book is the novel Mother, Mother. The fourth grade blessed me with "the cool teacher." I've long since forgotten his name, but I haven't forgotten the sound of him tearing into ...

Peter Tantsits as Edgar Allan Poe in "The Voyage of Edgar Allan Poe." (Courtesy Kathy Wittman/Ball Square Films) A lot of us know this iconic opening line: “Once upon a midnight dreary, while I ...