I applaud Willard Spiegelman’s arguments in his wonderful review of Jerome McGann’s “The Poet Edgar Allan Poe” (Bookshelf, Dec. 8). Certainly poetry should be read aloud. The works of William ...

Every item on this page was chosen by a Town & Country editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. This collection is a great start, as it compiles some of Poe's greatest ...

Poe, who readers worldwide know for his lyrical works about the macabre, is believed to have begun his writing career at age 18 by printing only 50 copies of his first book of poems. He did not attach ...

"I was a child and she was a child, in this kingdom by the sea, but we loved with a love that was more than love, I and my Annabel Lee." Those are words from a poem written by Edgar Allan Poe. It's ...

Poe’s most famous poem, “The Raven,” published in 1845—I prefer “The Bells”—papers the eight episodes. Besides the literal raven flitting about in episodes, there is also Roderick Usher’s ...

WEST POINT, N.Y. — Edgar Allen Poe returns to Baltimore on Saturday, but it’s no ghost story. Though the name might conjure the dark fiction and bleak Gothic poetry of one of the masters of American ...

The Oscar nominations get all the attention, but Tuesday was a busy day for literary honors as well. Yale University awarded the $165,000 Bollingen Prize in American Poetry to Charles Bernstein, while ...

John Cusack is playing American author and poet Edgar Allan Poe in James McTeigue's “The Raven”, which is soon going to fly in India. The title is drawn from one his best remembered poems. The ...