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PART I INTRODUCTION PART II TALES MS FOUND IN A BOTTLE BERENICE MORELLA LIGEIA HOW TO WRITE A BLACKWOOD ARTICLE A PREDICAMENT THE MAN THAT WAS USED UP THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER WILLIAM WILSON THE MAN OF THE CROWD THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE A DESCENT INTO THE MAELSTR Ö M NEVER BET THE DEVIL YOUR HEAD THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM THE TELL-TALE HEART THE GOLD-BUG THE BLACK CAT THE PREMATURE BURIAL THE PURLOINED LETTER THE SYSTEM OF DR TARR AND PROF FETHER THE BALLOON-HOAX THE LITERARY LIFE OF THINGUM BOB, ESQ SOME WORDS WITH A MUMMY THE IMP OF THE PERVERSE CONTENTS CONTENTS THE FACTS IN THE CASE OF M VALDEMAR THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO HOP-FROG PART III POEMS SONNET—TO SCIENCE ALONE TO HELEN ISRAFEL THE SLEEPER THE CITY IN THE SEA THE HAUNTED PALACE THE CONQUEROR WORM DREAM-LAND THE RAVEN TO ––– ––– ––– ULALUME: A BALLAD THE BELLS ANNABEL LEE PART IV EUREKA: A PROSE POEM FROM EUREKA: A PROSE POEM PART V LETTERS, PREFACES, AND CRITICAL WRITINGS FROM “LETTER TO B–––” FROM NIGHT AND MORNING (REVIEW OF BULWER) GUY FAWKES (REVIEW OF AINSWORTH) FROM BALLADS AND OTHER POEMS (REVIEW OF LONGFELLOW) TWICE-TOLD TALES (REVIEW OF HAWTHORNE) TWICE-TOLD TALES (REVIEW OF HAWTHORNE CONTINUED) SOME SECRETS OF THE MAGAZINE PRISON-HOUSE FROM “ANASTATIC PRINTING” PREFACE TO THE RAVEN AND OTHER POEMS THE PHILOSOPHY OF COMPOSITION FROM “THE POETIC PRINCIPLE” FROM POE TO JOHN ALLAN, DECEMBER 22, FROM POE TO THOMAS W WHITE, APRIL 30, FROM POE TO MRS MARIA CLEMM, AUGUST 29, CONTENTS FROM POE TO JOHN P KENNEDY, FEBRUARY 11, FROM POE TO PHILIP P COOKE, SEPTEMBER 21, FROM POE TO FREDERICK W THOMAS, MAY 4, FROM POE TO PHILIP P COOKE, AUGUST 9, FROM POE TO GEORGE W EVELETH, DECEMBER 15, FROM POE TO GEORGE W EVELETH, JANUARY 4, CHRONOLOGY OF EDGAR ALLAN POE’S LIFE AND TIMES EDGAR POE IS BORN IN BOSTON TO ACTORS DAVID AND ELIZABETH POE ON JANUARY 19 HE IS THE COUPLE’S SECOND SON (AFTER WILLIAM HENRY) ELIZABETH POE GIVES BIRTH TO A DAUGHTER, ROSALIE, IN 1810 UPON ELIZABETH POE’S DEATH, THE YOUNG EDGAR POE IS TAKEN IN (BUT NOT FORMALLY ADOPTED) BY RICHMOND, VIRGINIA TOBACCO MERCHANT JOHN ALLAN AND HIS WIFE FRANCES ALLAN MOVES THE FAMILY TO GREAT BRITAIN IN PURSUIT OF IMPROVED BUSINESS PROSPECTS POE IS EDUCATED AT A SCHOOL RUN BY THE REVEREND JOHN BRANSBY AT STOKE NEWINGTON, NEAR LONDON POE WOULD LATER USE HIS MEMORIES OF THIS SCHOOL IN WRITING “WILLIAM WILSON ” THE ALLANS RETURN TO RICHMOND IN AN AGREEMENT KNOWN AS THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE, MISSOURI IS ADDED TO THE UNION AS A SLAVE STATE AND MAINE AS A FREE STATE, PRESERVING THE BALANCE OF POWER BETWEEN FREE AND SLAVE STATES IN THE UNITED STATES SENATE A GEOGRAPHICAL BOUNDARY LINE IS ESTABLISHED BETWEEN FREE AND SLAVE STATES WASHINGTON IRVING’S THE SKETCHBOOK OF GEOFFREY CRAYON, GENT COMPLETES SERIAL PUBLICATION IN NEW YORK PRESIDENT JAMES MONROE ANNOUNCES UNITED STATES OPPOSITION TO FURTHER EUROPEAN COLONIALIST INTERFERENCE IN THE NEW WORLD, A POSITION LATER CODI? ED AS THE MONROE DOCTRINE POE ENROLLS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HE EXCELS AT FRENCH AND LATIN, BUT LEAVES THE UNIVERSITY AFTER LESS THAN A YEAR ALLAN REFUSES TO HONOR GAMBLING DEBTS POE HAD ACCUMULATED AND GENERALLY BALKS AT ? NANCING POE’S EDUCATION AT THE LEVELS EXPECTED FOR A MEMBER OF THE SOUTHERN GENTRY JAMES FENIMORE COOPER PUBLISHES THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS AFTER A BREAK WITH FOSTER FATHER JOHN ALLAN, POE MOVES TO BOSTON, WHERE HE PUBLISHES HIS ? RST BOOK, TAMERLANE AND OTHER POEMS HE JOINS THE U S ARMY UNDER THE NAME EDGAR A PERRY IN NOVEMBER, HIS COMPANY MOVES TO FORT MOULTRIE, ON SULLIVAN’S ISLAND, SOUTH CAROLINA SULLIVAN’S ISLAND IS LATER EMPLOYED AS THE SETTING FOR HIS STORY “THE GOLD-BUG ” THE ? RST U S RAILROAD IS CHARTERED ANDREW JACKSON, RENOWNED AS AN INDIAN ? GHTER AND THE HERO OF THE BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS (DURING THE WAR OF 1812), IS ELECTED TO THE ? RST OF TWO PRESIDENTIAL TERMS PART I INTRODUCTION COLLECTED TALES, POEMS, AND OTHER WRITINGS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE POE’S FOSTER MOTHER FRANCES (FANNY) ALLAN DIES IN RICHMOND POE IS DISCHARGED FROM THE U S ARMY HE PUBLISHES A SECOND BOOK OF POETRY, AL AARAAF, TAMERLANE, AND MINOR POEMS , IN BALTIMORE POE IS ADMITTED TO THE U S MILITARY ACADEMY AT WEST POINT, NEW YORK, WHERE HE EXCELS IN FRENCH AND MATHEMATICS JOHN ALLAN REMARRIES THE INDIAN REMOVAL ACT IS PASSED WITH PRESIDENT JACKSON’S SUPPORT, BEGINNING THE PROCESS OF THE FORCED REMOVAL OF NATIVE AMERICANS FROM THEIR HOMELANDS IN THE SOUTHEAST SUPPORTED IN PART BY A SUBSCRIPTION LIST MADE UP OF FELLOW CADETS, POE PUBLISHES POEMS: SECOND EDITION IN NEW YORK POE IS DISCHARGED FROM THE U S MILITARY ACADEMY AND MOVES TO BALTIMORE, WHERE HE LIVES WITH PATERNAL AUNT MARIA CLEMM AND HER DAUGHTER VIRGINIA, AMONG OTHERS JOHN ALLAN’S SECOND WIFE GIVES BIRTH, EFFECTIVELY PUTTING TO REST POE’S HOPES OF RECEIVING A SIGNI? CANT INHERITANCE NAT TURNER LEADS A VIOLENT REBELLION OF SLAVES IN SOUTHAMPTON COUNTY, VIRGINIA, CAUSING NATIONWIDE PANIC AND OUTRAGE THE CONFESSIONS OF NAT TURNER , A PAMPHLET PUBLISHED IN BALTIMORE, SELLS TENS OF THOUSANDS OF COPIES WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON FOUNDS HIS ANTISLAVERY NEWSPAPER THE LIBERATOR IN BOSTON, LEADING TO NEW VISIBILITY FOR THE ABOLITIONIST MOVEMENT THE PHILADELPHIA SATURDAY COURIER PUBLISHES A STORY POE HAD SUBMITTED TO A PRIZE CONTEST, “METZENGERSTEIN ” GERMAN PHYSICIAN JOHANN SPURZHEIM ARRIVES IN THE UNITED STATES FOR A LECTURE TOUR AND POPULARIZES THE PSEUDO-SCIENCE KNOWN AS PHRENOLOGY POE WINS A PRIZE CONTEST SPONSORED BY THE BALTIMORE SATURDAY VISITER ON THE STRENGTH OF SEVERAL TALES HE SUBMITS, INCLUDING “MS FOUND IN A BOTTLE,” WHICH THE NEWSPAPER PUBLISHES SLAVERY IS ABOLISHED IN THE BRITISH EMPIRE POE BEFRIENDS NOVELIST JOHN PENDLETON KENNEDY JOHN ALLAN DIES IN RICHMOND AND LEAVES NOTHING TO POE RECOMMENDED BY KENNEDY TO PUBLISHER THOMAS W WHITE, POE SUBMITS TALES TO WHITE’S MAGAZINE, THE SOUTHERN LITERARY MESSENGER , PUBLISHED IN RICHMOND WHITE PUBLISHES EARLY POE TALES AND EVENTUALLY HIRES HIM AS EDITOR POE MARRIES VIRGINIA CLEMM; SHE IS THIRTEEN AND HE IS TWENTY-SEVEN RALPH WALDO EMERSON PUBLISHES THE ESSAY “NATURE,” FOUNDING THE AMERICAN TRANSCENDENTALIST MOVEMENT FRENCHMAN CHARLES BOYEN BEGINS LECTURING AND PUBLISHING IN NEW ENGLAND ON THE SUBJECT OF MESMERISM, INSPIRING GROWING PUBLIC INTEREST OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL YEARS POE PUBLISHES EARLY INSTALLMENTS OF HIS NOVEL THE NARRATIVE OF ARTHUR GORDON PYM IN THE SOUTHERN LITERARY MESSENGER POE AND THE MESSENGER PART WAYS HE MOVES WITH MARIA CLEMM (NICKNAMED MUDDY) AND VIRGINIA TO NEW YORK CITY, WHICH IS SOON PLUNGED WITH THE REST OF THE COUNTRY INTO AN ECONOMIC DEPRESSION KNOWN AS THE PANIC OF 1837 NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE PUBLISHES THE ? RST EDITION OF TWICE-TOLD TALES A DESCENT INTO THE MAELSTR INTRODUCTION POE PUBLISHES THE NARRATIVE OF ARTHUR GORDON PYM WITH HARPER & BROTHERS HE MOVES WITH VIRGINIA AND MUDDY TO PHILADELPHIA A SCIENCE TEXTBOOK, THE CONCHOLOGIST’S FIRST BOOK , IS PUBLISHED UNDER POE’S NAME IN PHILADELPHIA POE ASSUMES EDITORIAL DUTIES WITH WILLIAM E BURTON’S GENTLEMAN’S MAGAZINE , CONTRIBUTING REVIEWS, POEMS, AND TALES PUBLISHERS LEA AND BLANCHARD OF PHILADELPHIA BRING OUT THE TWO-VOLUME COLLECTION TALES OF THE GROTESQUE AND ARABESQUE HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW PUBLISHES VOICES OF THE NIGHT BURTON AND POE HAVE A FALLING OUT, AND POE LEAVES THE GENTLEMAN’S MAGAZINE THE WASHINGTONIAN TEMPERANCE SOCIETY IS FOUNDED IN BALTIMORE, PART OF A GROWING NATIONAL MOVEMENT DEVOTED TO ABSTENTION FROM ALCOHOL POE JOINS THE STAFF OF GRAHAM’S LADY’S AND GENTLEMAN’S MAGAZINE (GEORGE R GRAHAM HAD PURCHASED THE SUBSCRIPTION LIST OF THE DEFUNCT GENTLEMAN’S MAGAZINE FROM BURTON ) VIRGINIA EXPERIENCES THE ? RST SERIOUS SYMPTOMS OF THE TUBERCULOSIS THAT WILL EVENTUALLY CLAIM HER POE LEAVES THE STAFF OF GRAHAM’S POE SUBMITS “THE GOLD-BUG” TO A PRIZE CONTEST SPONSORED BY PHILADELPHIA’S DOLLAR NEWSPAPER AND WINS THE $100 PRIZE THE STORY IS WIDELY REPRINTED POE AND HIS FAMILY LEAVE PHILADELPHIA FOR NEW YORK POE JOINS THE STAFF OF THE NEW YORK MIRROR SAMUEL MORSE SENDS THE MESSAGE “WHAT HATH GOD WROUGHT” ON A TELEGRAPH LINE BETWEEN WASHINGTON, D C AND BALTIMORE “THE RAVEN” APPEARS IN JANUARY AND BECOMES AN IMMEDIATE INTERNATIONAL SENSATION JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL’S BIOGRAPHICAL-CRITICAL ARTICLE IS PUBLISHED IN THE “OUR CONTRIBUTORS” SERIES IN GRAHAM’S , FURTHER RAISING POE’S LITERARY PRO? LE POE JOINS THE STAFF OF THE BROADWAY JOURNAL AND COMMENCES A SERIES OF ATTACKS ON BELOVED POET HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW, ACCUSING THE POET OF PLAGIARISM WILEY AND PUTNAM PUBLISH TWO VOLUMES BY POE IN THEIR PRESTIGIOUS LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BOOKS SERIES, TALES AND THE RAVEN AND OTHER POEMS POE ACCEPTS AN INVITATION TO DELIVER AN ORIGINAL POEM BEFORE THE BOSTON LYCEUM; THE READING AND ITS AFTERMATH COMPROMISE POE’S STANDING IN THE LITERARY WORLD POE TAKES OVER PROPRIETORSHIP OF THE BROADWAY JOURNAL THE BROADWAY JOURNAL CEASES PUBLICATION POE IS INVOLVED IN AN EMBARRASSING PERSONAL SCANDAL THAT LEADS TO A ? ST? GHT WITH WRITER THOMAS DUNN ENGLISH ENGLISH QUESTIONS POE’S SANITY AND MORALITY IN THE NEW YORK MIRROR LATE IN THE YEAR, NOTICES APPEAR IN NEWSPAPERS SOLICITING HELP ON POE’S BEHALF; THE FAMILY IS IN POOR ? NANCIAL STRAITS AND VIRGINIA’S HEALTH IS IN DECLINE VIRGINIA DIES ON JANUARY 30, PLUNGING POE INTO DEPRESSION POE WINS A LIBEL SUIT AGAINST ENGLISH AND THE MIRROR