Hi all.

This is a thread completely dedicated to everything Poe. I'm in a Poe class this semester and am reading many of his poems, tales, etc.

So, my questions to you are: what Poe (if any) have you read?

Also, how would you compare him to other 19th century writers? http://www.2020site.org/literature/

Helpful links below:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Allan_Poe

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poems_by_Edgar_Allan_Poe

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/POE/contents.html

The Pit and the Pendulum is perhaps my favorite but their are others including one about a man who is imprisoned for much of his life but I cannot recall the ending or the title.

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/POE/cask.html

:foodndrink:

I read that in English last year. Always been a fan, and I've been to his museum in Richmond.

We just read and watched the movie of The Cask of Amontillado in English.

Poe is a creepy, unique author, I like it.

I got through all of my English lit classes (inc. a degree) without ever reading Poe - shame on me! Can anyone recommend anything great apart from The Raven?

I have heard of the Poe Toaster though - a shame the tradition seems to have ended.

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/POE/gold_bug.html

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/POE/cask.html

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/POE/fall.html

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/POE/w_wilson.html

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/bells-the/

The Pit and the Pendulum
The Fall of the House of Usher
The Raven
The Masque of the Red Death
The Cask of Amontillado
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
The Purloined Letter
The Tell-Tale Heart
Annabel Lee
To Helen
Lenore

Were the only ones I've read. I read them in class. Sometimes on my own time, sometimes on the teacher's.

I went to the http://www.eapoe.org/balt/poehse.htm in Baltimore. It was kind of interesting - had original manuscripts of many of his stories and other personal items. Its set in an old 1800s rowhouse he lived in. I wouldn't recommend going there though - it was surrounded by a rough looking housing project on one side of the street and a scene out of Fallout 3 on the other. Scariest ghetto I've even stumbled into. The cab driver asked if I really wanted him to leave, I checked the door and the museum was open so I told him to go on. When it was time to go I called another cab and kept my fingers crossed he'd actually show up. http://maps.google.com/maps?q=203+amity+street+baltimore+md&hl=en&ll=39.290801,-76.632482&spn=0.006485,0.013937&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=53.741627,114.169922&vpsrc=http://forums.bethsoft.com/index.php?/topic/1228626-edgar-allan-poe/0&t=m&z=17&iwloc=A&layer=c&cbll=39.291285,-76.633197&panoid=Czc9DwzOolj2wzdExKMrTg&cbp=12,77.82,,0,0.71 :bolt:

The Pit and the Pendulum
The Fall of the House of Usher
The Raven
The Masque of the Red Death
The Cask of Amontillado
The Tell-Tale Heart
Lenore

These are the ones I've read. I enjoy them, not much else to say, really.

I think this plus other posts has convinced me to buy a "complete" version of his work (the price really seems worth it!) - I quite like the idea of snuggling up with his book when winter really kicks in. :happy:

I suggest http://www.amazon.com/Poe-Selected-Library-America-Editions/dp/1883011388.

Content plus paperback? Sold. :foodndrink:

I love Poe. I have a collection of his stories and have read about half of them by now. I love the creepy and macabre. Probably why sitting beside that book is my collection of H.P. Lovecraft, too. :hehe:

The Tell-Tale Heart

One of my favorites

I haven't read his works (unfortunately), but I think it's worth noting (whether this news be horrifying, awesome, bizarre, intriguing, arousing or all of the above) that action figures of him exist.

http://www.bobbydazzler.ca/store/l_edgar-allan-poe-action-figure.jpg

Anyways, which of his stuff would you guys suggest as a good place to start?

I need to read more, I need some dark inspiration. :sadvaultboy:

Compare him with other 19th century writers?

In poetry, I think Coleridge, Tennyson, and Robert Browning are better. He's not bad, but doesn't quite strike my fancy. I haven't read enough of his stories, or other 19th century non-poetry to know. I'm a Classics scholar though, so English and American literature is not my specialty.

I just realized how much I love reading and classic literature after reviewing some of the titles here and remembering many of these stories that I read in high school. =)

Nice! I'm hoping to major in Classics. :foodndrink:

If you guys want one of the eeriest short stories written in the classical period look up "The Yellow Wallpaper" it has a scene in it eerily reminiscent of something from The Grudge

He's not in the same league as Walt Whitman or Emily dikeinson, among Americans. Among Europeans he's not in the same league as, say, Lord Byron, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Elizabeth Barret Browning, Robert Browning, Charles Baudelaire, Stephane Mallarme, Arthur Rimbaud, Paul Verlaine, Paul Valery or Gerard Manley Hopkins, either.

He created interesting surface effects in his poems. I wouldn't call his poems art.

Have you read any of his short stories/tales?

The Yellow Wallpaper is amazing.



See, this is what makes me want to read his work - the fact that he seems so deeply connected to the artists I was brought up to admire (particularly the European ones).