Blog Title: Celebrate Poe

8 Tamerlane, eap200

Welcome to another episode of CelebratePoe – celebrating the life, works, and legacy of America’s Shakespeare – Edgar Allan Poe. Some of you have asked about the opening music to most of these podcasts.  The music, Come Rest in This Bosom, was written by the Irish poet, Thomas Moore, and is reputed to have been Edgar’s read more..

Wright 2, To My Mother, English Elegy

Welcome to the seventh episode of Celebrate Poe – a podcast dealing with the life, times, works, and legacy of America’s Shakespeare – Edgar Allan Poe. Up to this point, the biography sections of this podcast have dealt with the writer’s background, childhood, and education. The last two podcasts had sections about Edgar at read more..

UVA, letter, middle name

Welcome to Episode 6 of Celebrate Poe – celebrating the life, works, and influence of America’s Shakespeare – Edgar Allan Poe. Let’s jump right into part two of an exploration of the writer’s life at the University of Virginia. The writer did not really declare a major at the university, although it appears that his studies read more..

Wright, UVA, Raven

Welcome to another episode of celebratepoe – celebrating the life, works, and influence of America’s Shakespeare – Edgar Allan Poe. Today I would like to begin a series about Poe’s days at the University of Virginia and end with a reading of his most famous work, The Raven. But first I would like to explore the read more..

Poe in England, First Poetry

Welcome to the fourth episode of celebratepoe – celebrating the life, times, works, and influence of Edgar Allan Poe – America’s Shakespeare. Let’s get back to the story of Edgar Allan Poe’s early life. Poe’s foster father, John Allan, took his family to Scotland and England when Poe was six years old to establish read more..

Mother’s Death, To Helen

Welcome to another blog entry for celebratepoe – celebrating the life, times, works, and influence of Edgar Allan Poe – America’s Shakespeare.   Let’s jump right into the story of Edgar Allan Poe’s early life. When Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809 in Boston, two famous people were born less than a month later read more..

Alone, Christmas With Edgar Allan Poe - Part Two

In this blog, I would like to look at one of the writer’s most personal works - the original version of the 1829 poem, Alone – a poem that the writer could have written about his youth. There were actually serious doubts concerning the work’s authenticity, but now it is widely accepted as one of read more..

Family, Alone, Holidays

Thanks for reading my blog – and I can see that dealing with the life of Edgar Allan Poe is going to be a great deal of work – but I look forward to the opportunity to learn more about “America’s Shakespeare But before we get into Edgar’s   life, I would like to talk a little read more..

Introduction, Christmas With Poe

An introduction to this podcast, an overview, Why Care About Poe, and Part One of a look at period holiday music that was part of Poe’s world at Christmas