1. American Romantic Period
Edgar Allan Poe
American Romantic Period
The Life of Poe
The Poetry of Poe
BTEOTL: Students should be able to describe the social and literary context in which Edgar Allen Poe lived and wrote.

2. American Romantic Period
Some Key Writers During the American Romantic Period
Washington Irving
James Fenimore Cooper Emily Dickinson Frederick Douglass Ralph Waldo Emerson Margaret Fuller Nathaniel Hawthorne Washington Irving Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Herman Melville Edgar Allen Poe Henry David Thoreau Walt Whitman

3. The Life of Poe An orphan at the age of two...
A schoolboy who had mastered even the most complex Latin works by the time he was a teenager...
An athletic student who defended his friends from the biggest bullies...
A man deeply connected with Baltimore...
One of America's finest writers...
These are all phrases that describe Edgar Allan Poe. And there are many more. Poe was a very complex person, and his life story was a complicated journey of forty years.

4. The Poetics of Poe The Poetic Principle
The inventor of the detective story...
The father of the modern American short story...
The architect who helped the world discover science fiction as a literary genre...
A skillful poet...
An important literary critic who helped define American literature, film, and other arts...
All these phrases—and many more—describe Edgar Allan Poe. His work has been praised by some and condemned by others. However, his poems and tales are an important part of American culture and American literature. In addition, hundreds of articles, stories, poems, and books have been written about or inspired by Poe, from serious works to humorous parodies.
The Poetic Principle
Explore this interactive activity to find out Poe’s thoughts on poetry and its creation.
The Poetic Perfectionist

5. Poe’s Poems
"An Acrostic" (ca. 1829) "Al Aaraaf" (1829) (or "Al Araaf" due to a typographical error) "Alone" (ca. 1828)     "Annabel Lee" (1849) "Ballad" (1837) "The Bells" (1848, 1849) "Bridal Ballad" (1845) "Catholic Hymn" (1835, written ca ) "City in the Sea, The" (1831) "The City of Sin" (1845 [1831]) "The Coliseum" (1833 [1831]) "The Conqueror Worm" (1843) "Dirge" (1848 [1843]) "The Divine Right of Kings" (1845) "The Doomed City" (1831) "A Dream within a Dream, A" (1849) "A Dream" (1827) "Dream-Land" (1844)
"Dreams" (1827)
"Eldorado" (1849) "Elizabeth" (ca. 1829) "Enigma [on Shakespeare]" (1833) "Enigma, An [Sarah Anna Lewis]" (1847) "Eulalie -- A Song" (1844) "Evening Star" (1827) "Fairy land" (1831) "Fairy-land" (1829) "Fairyland" (1829, 1831) "Fanny" (1833) "For Annie" (1849?) "The Haunted Palace" (1839) "Heaven" (1829) "Hymn" (1835, written ca. 1833) "Imitation" (1827) "In an Album. To --" (1827) "Introduction [to Poems, 1831]" (1831) "Irene" (1831 and 1837) "Israfel" (1831)
"The Lake" (1827)
"Lenore" (1843) "Lines Written in an Album" (1835 [1833 ?])
"Mysterious Star!" (1831) "Oh, Tempora! Oh, Mores!" (ca ?) "Original" (ca. 1829) "A Paean" (1831, 1842) "Preface [to Al Aaraaf, etc.]" (1829) "The Raven" (1845) "Romance" (1845) "Serenade" (1833) "Silence--a Sonnet" (?) "The Sleeper" (1841) "Song" (1827) "Sonnet" (1829) "Sonnet to My Mother" (1849) "Sonnet--Silence" (1839) "Sonnet--To Science" (1829) "Sonnet--To Zante" (1837) "Spirits of the Dead" (1829) [Stanzas] (1827)
    
"Tamerlane" (1827) "To -- --" (1829) "To Elizabeth" "To -- [Elmira]" (1829) "To -- --" (1827) "To F--s S. O--d [Frances S. Osgood]" (1845 [1833 ?]) "To -- [Violet Vane]" (1845) "To Helen" (1831) "To Helen [Whitman]" (1848) "To M--" (1828) "To Marie Louise" (ca. 1848) "To Miss Louise Olivia Hunter" (1847) "To My Mother" (1849) [To Octavia] (May 1, 1827) "To One in Paradise" (ca. 1833) "To the River -- [Po]" (1828) "To Zante" "Ulalume--A Ballad" (1847) "Valentine, A [Frances S. Osgood]" (1849) "The Valley Nis" (1831) "The Valley of Unrest" (1845) "Visit of the Dead" (1827)