A selective bibliography of 43 active links for Edgar Allan Poe, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the MLA Guidelines for Authors of Web Sites
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Brown, Arthur A. Literature and the Impossibility of Death: Poe's "Berenice", Nineteenth Century Literature, Volume 50, Issue 4, March 1996 (removed http://www.ucpress.edu/scan/ncl-free/504/articles/brown.art504.html)
Brown, Arthur A. "Death and telling in Poe's "The Imp of the Perverse." Edgar Allan Poe, Studies in Short Fiction, Spring, 1994
Comeau, Robert C. "Reading Poe in salary: Mark Twain's use of 'The Raven.' "Focuses on the literary works of author, Edgar Allan Poe. Influence of Poe's writings on author Samuel Clements; Background information on Poe; Excerpts from Poe's works." Southern Literary Journal, Fall 96 Issue 1
DeNiccid, Jerome. "History, narrative, and authority: Poe's 'Metzengerstein.'" "Explores the authority a writer wields over his narrative in 'Metzengerstein,' by Edgar Allan Poe. Dual metempsychosis; Enactment of a parallel desire for narrative authority; Need to contain and control its meaning." College Literature, Jun97, Vol. 24 Issue 2
Dudley, David R. "Dead or alive: The booby-trapped narrator of Poe's 'Masque of the Red Death.'" "Focuses on the narrator of the novel `Masque of the Red Death,' by Edgar Allan Poe. Inclusion of three first-person pronouns; Concept of Death as narrator; Representation of death in art." Studies in Short Fiction, Spring93, Vol. 30 Issue 2
Fabre, Michel. "Black Cat and White Cat: Richard Wright's Debt to Edgar Allan Poe," Poe Studies Volume IV, Number 1 (June 1971)
Fisher, Benjamin Franklin. "Dickens and Poe: Pickwick and 'Ligeia,'" Poe Studies, vol. VI, no. 1, June 1973
Freeland, Natalka. "'One of an infinite series of mistakes': Mystery, influence, and Edgar Allan Poe" "Examines mystery and influence in Edgar Allan Poe's detective fiction. Emphasis on originality; Anxiety of influence in `The Tell-tale Heart'; Characterization of protagonists in Poe's works." ATQ, Jun96, Vol. 10 Issue 2
Garmon, Gerald M. Emerson's 'Moral Sentiment' and Poe's 'Poetic Sentiment': A Reconsideration," (Ralph Waldo Emerson and Edgar Allan Poe) Poe Studies, vol. VI, no. 1, June 1973
Garmon, Gerald M. "Roderick Usher: Portrait of the Madman as Artist," "The Fall of the House of Usher": A Symposium in Poe Studies Volume V, Number 1 (June 1972)
Heller, Terry. The complete text of The Delights of Horror (University of Illinois Press 1987), includes chapters on Poe's "Ligeia" and "The Fall of the House of Usher," chapters on Bram Stoker's Dracula, Henry James's "The Turn of the Screw," and more
Hoffman, Daniel. "The artist of the beautiful." "Discusses the life and poetry of American author Edgar Allan Poe. Childhood; Tragedies which marked his life; Poe's first volume of poems, 'Tamerlane'; Criticism and interpretation of his poems; Poe's influence on poets and authors that succeeded him." American Poetry Review, Nov/Dec95, Vol. 24 Issue 6
Hull, Richard. "'The Purloined Letter': Poe's detective story vs. panoptic Foucauldian theory." "Presents a critique on the detective story 'The Purloined Letter,' by Edgar Allan Poe. Role of literary narrative in thought and behavior; Ideas of panoptic theorists; Reference to the book 'Discipline and Punish,' by Michael Foucualt." Style, Summer90, Vol. 24 Issue 2
Marovitz, Sanford E. "Poe's Reception of C. W. Webber's Gothic Western, 'Jack Long; or The Shot in the Eye." Poe Studies, Volume IV, Number 1 (June 1971)
Marsh, John L. "The Psycho-Sexual Reading of 'The Fall of the House of Usher,'" "The Fall of the House of Usher": A Symposium. Poe Studies Volume V, Number 1 (June 1972)
Martindale, Colin. "Archetype and Reality in 'The Fall of the House of Usher,'" "The Fall of the House of Usher": A Symposium. Poe Studies, Volume V, Number 1 (June 1972)
May, Leila S. "'Sympathies of a scarcely intelligible nature': the brother-sister bond in Poe's 'Fall of the House of Usher.'" Short Fiction, Summer, 1993
Perry, Dennis R. "Imps of the perverse: Discovering the Poe/Hitchcock connection." "Explores on the influence of writer Edgar Allan Poe on the works of author and director Alfred Hitchcock. Implications of the connections; Creating and sustaining a narrative experience; Mutual obsession with the irrational; Comparison of their works." Literature Film Quarterly, Vol. 24 Issue 4 (1996)
Phillips, H. Wells. "Poe's Usher: Precursor of Abstract Art," "The Fall of the House of Usher": A Symposium. Poe Studies, Volume V, Number 1 (June 1972)
Piacentino, Ed. "Poe's 'The Black Cat' as psychobiography: some reflections on the narratological dynamics," Studies in Short Fiction, Spring, 1998
Pollin, Burton R. "Edgar Allan Poe as a major influence upon Allen Ginsberg," Mississippi Quarterly, Fall 1999
Robinson, E. Arthur. "Thoreau and the Deathwatch in Poe's 'The Tell-Tale Heart,'" Poe Studies Volume IV, Number 1 (June 1971)
Ross, Donald H. "The Grotesque: A Speculation," Poe Studies Volume IV, Number 1 (June 1971)
Senelick, Laurence. "Charles Dickens and 'The Tell-Tale Heart,'" from Poe Studies, vol. VI, no. 1, June 1973
St. Armand, Barton Levi. "Poe's 'Sober Mystification': The Uses of Alchemy in 'The Gold-Bug,'" Poe Studies Volume IV, Number 1 (June 1971)
St. Armand, Barton Levi. "Usher Unveiled: Poe and the Metaphysic of Gnosticism" in "The Fall of the House of Usher": A Symposium, Poe Studies Volume V, Number 1 (June 1972)
Sucur, Slobodan. On "The Cask of Amontillado," from the Literary Encyclopedia, 6/23/06
Thompson, G.R. "The Face in the Pool: Reflections on the Doppelgänger Motif in 'The Fall of the House of Usher,'" "The Fall of the House of Usher": A Symposium in Poe Studies Volume V, Number 1 (June 1972)
Wetz, Linda L. and S. K Wertz. "On Poe's Use of 'Mystery.'" Poe Studies Volume IV, Number 1 (June 1971)
Zimmerman, Brett. "A Catalogue of Selected Rhetorical Devices Used in the Works of Edgar Allan Poe," Style, Winter, 1999
Web page designed to help students understand "The Cask of Amontillado," presents the text on one side of the screen and discussion questions on the opposite site. Created by Randy Rambo, English Instructor at Illinois Valley Community College
"'The Cask of Amontillado' and 'Young Goodman Brown,'" a sample essay from English Writing Guide, George Mason Univ. The web site offers a useful online guide for writing analytical papers about literature
Very brief introduction to Edgar Allan Poe from the Academy of American Poets
A short biography of Edgar Allan Poe from the Books and Writers web site, Kuusankoski Public Library, Finland
An online exhibition of Edgar Allan Poe's letters, Univ. of Virginia
A curriculum guide for teachers of Edgar Allan Poe, "Poe Lightly" by Rosemary Hamilton, from the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute
"Detective Fiction for Remedial Readers," a curriculum guide for middle school teachers, by Ruth M. Wilson, focuses on the work of of Edgar Allan Poe and the Sherlock Holmes stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, from the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute
A curriculum guide for middle school teachers, "It’s A Mystery To Me" by Marilyn Gaudioso, provides suggestions for teaching "The Red-Headed League" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" by Edgar Allan Poe, and "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie. From the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute
Brief recommendation of a 1960's movie version of "The Cask of Amontillado," NYTimes
Introduction to Edgar Allan Poe from the Norton Anthology of literature. "Poe's horror tales and detective stories (a genre he created) were written to capture the fancy of the popular reading public, but he earned his national reputation through a large number of critical essays and sketches. With the publication of The Raven (1845), Poe's fame was ensured." (removed from www.wwnorton.com/naal/vol_B/explorations/poe.htm) Entry on Edgar Allan Poe, with short bibliography, by Kent P. Ljungquist, from The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism (removed from www.press.jhu.edu/books/hopkins_guide_to_literary_theory/entries/edgar_allan_poe.html)A bibliography for studying the science fiction element in Poe's work, by David Ketterer, Science Fiction Studies Vol. 1, No. 3 (1974)
An Edgar Allan Poe Webliography, by Rutgers Univ. professor Heyward Ehrlich, is useful for locating etexts of Poe's work on the internet
A web site on Edgar Allan Poe by Gonzoga Univ. professor Donna Campbell is valuable for linking to nineteenth century reviews of Poe
Poe Studies, published by Washington State Univ., has made full-text articles from 1971-1979 freely available at their web site. Over 50 scholarly articles of interest to Poe researchers can be read there, along with reviews of scholarly books. A sample of these articles is indexed here; for additional articles the researcher should browse the journals. Additional articles from the Poe Newsletter, 1968-70
Findarticles.com This source of free articles from reputable publishers can be searched for additional articles, including light reading and book reviews relating to Poe that were too extensive for us to catalog
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