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There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few. - Edgar Allan Poe Attribution: Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1845), U.S. poet, critic, short-story writer. repr. In Essays and Reviews (1984). “Marginalia,” Southern Literary Messenger (Richmond, Va., April 1849).

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Edgar Allan Poe

Titles by Edgar Allan Poe:

• Annabel Lee
• Classic American Short Stories
• Lenore
• Ligeia
• Murders in the Rue Morgue
• Sonnet—To Science
• Stories of Edgar Allan Poe
• The Bells
• The Best of Poe
• The Black Cat
• The Cask of Amontillado
• The City in the Sea
• The Fall of the House of Usher
• The Gold Bug
• The Masque of the Red Death
• The Pit and the Pendulum
• The Purloined Letter
• The Raven
• The Tell-Tale Heart
• Ulalume

Critical Companions:

• Poe, Edgar Allan (1809 - 1849) (Gothic Literature)

Salem on History:

• Edgar Allan Poe

Encyclopedia:

• Poe, Edgar Allan (The Oxford Companion to English Literature)
• Poe, Edgar Allan (The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare)
• Poe, Edgar Allan (The Oxford Companion to American Literature)

Salem on Literature:

• The Essays of Edgar Allan Poe (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)
• Edgar Allan Poe (Magill Book Reviews)
• Edgar Allan Poe (Cyclopedia of World Authors, Fourth Revised Edition)
• Edgar Allan Poe (Critical Survey of Poetry, Second Revised Edition)
• Edgar Allan Poe (Critical Survey of Short Fiction, Second Revised Edition)
• Edgar Allan Poe (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
• Edgar Allan Poe (Magill’s Choice: 100 Masters of Mystery and Detective Fiction)
• Edgar Allan Poe (Dictionary of World Biography: The 19th Century)

Literary Criticism:

• The Cask of Amontillado Edgar Allan Poe (Short Story Criticism)
• The Tell-Tale Heart, Edgar Allan Poe (Short Story Criticism)
• The Fall of the House of Usher Poe, Edgar Allan (Short Story Criticism)
• Poe, Edgar Allan (Short Story Criticism)
• The Raven, Edgar Allan Poe (Poetry)
• Poe, Edgar Allan (Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism)
• The Fall of the House of Usher, Edgar Allan Poe (Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism)
• The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, Edgar Allan Poe (Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism)
• The Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Allan Poe (Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism)
• Poe, Edgar Allan (Contemporary Literary Criticism)

Calendar of Literary Facts:

• Edgar Allan Poe dies
• Edgar Allan Poe publishes Eureka
• Edgar Allan Poe publishes The Raven and Other Poems
• Edgar Allan Poe publishes The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, of Nantucket
• Edgar Allan Poe is born