The Edgar A. Poe Calendar

Edgar Allan Poe and Sarah Helen Whitman had planned a Christmas wedding on December 25, 1848. Whitman (no relation to Walt, though the two c...

Rufus Wilmot Griswold was the first major figure to express Poe's personality after the author's death in 1849. He took great liber...

Psychoanalytic critics often suggest that Poe was obsessed with sick, dying women — that he was personally attracted only to women who were...

On December 13, 1845, the Broadway Journal printed a review of Poems , a collection of poetry by Frances Sargent Osgood . Poe praises her w...

On November 9, 1848, Sarah Helen Whitman convinced Edgar Poe to have his daguerreotype taken in Providence, Rhode Island. It was a few days...

In late 1848, Poe was struggling between two women. One was single and available but, most unfortunately, a Transcendentalist . The other wa...

Before I get back to Poe's engagement to Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton , let's go back to exactly one year earlier. It is believed th...

A letter was written to Maria Clemm, mother-in-law of Edgar Poe, on September 22, 1849. The letter-writer was a woman who had never met Ma...

September 1, 1827 saw the third and final installment of Merlin , a play in verse by Maryland writer Lambert A. Wilmer. Published in the No...

Today, June 18, marks two interesting anniversaries. Frances "Fanny" Osgood was born this day in 1811. An accomplished, well-known...

Poe's final short story (if it can be called that) was published in the June 9, 1849, issue of Boston's The Flag of Our Union . This...

On May 12, 1850, poet Frances Sargent Osgood died after a struggle with tuberculosis. She was 38 years old. In the 1840s, she became estra...

185 years ago today, Poe's first love died. Or so they say. Mrs. Jane Stith Craig Stanard died April 28, 1824, when Poe was only 15 yea...

As you spread love, chocolate, and flowers this February 14, keep in mind that Poe got into the spirit of Valentine's Day himself. Here ...

On February 5, 1860, poetess Sarah Helen Whitman (1803-1878) published Edgar Poe and His Critics , a book which directly responded to vario...