In the history of American literature, Edgar Allan Poe is often portrayed as a solitary figure—brilliant, embattled, and perpetually at odds with the institutions of his time. Yet Poe did not operate in isolation. Like all professional writers of the nineteenth...
Few figures in American literature stand as tall—or cast as long a shadow—as Edgar Allan Poe. His name evokes images of candlelit chambers, storm-tossed nights, and the ever-present whisper of madness that lurks just beneath the surface of the civilized mind. Poe was...
