You’d be hard-pressed to find a student that doesn’t enjoy (or, at the very least, find interesting) one of Edgar Allan Poe’s short stories—even if you polled the most literature-hating students, they’d still be able to quoth the raven everslightly. Poe’s stories …
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This Week in Poetic History
Just for fun: we’re celebrating the lives of three poets that were changed this week in history, many years ago, and examining the curious ways one turn of events can change a legacy. Here are three world-altering events from three …
Quoth “The Raven”: It’s My Birthday! Poe’s Poem turns 168
Yesterday marked the anniversary of the publication Edgar Allan Poe‘s classic, creepy poem “The Raven.” Although there is some dispute, the first publication of the work is generally attributed to The New York Mirror. The poem made Poe a star, but …
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“The Tell-Tale Heart” Animated, But Not for Children
The film that you are about to see is based on a story told a hundred years ago by America’s greatest writer of drama and suspense… So begins the 1953 animated adaptation of Poe’s sinister masterpiece, “The Tell-Tale Heart.” In …
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