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Poe Toaster is the media sobriquet used to refer to an unidentified person (or probably more than one person in succession) who, for several decades, paid an annual tribute to the American author Edgar Allan Poe by visiting the cenotaph marking his original grave in Baltimore, Maryland, in the early hours of January 19, Poe's birthday.
Poe Returning to Boston is a statue of American author Edgar Allan Poe in Boston, Massachusetts. It was created by the American sculptor Stefanie Rocknak. [1] The statue is located at the corner of Boylston and Charles streets at Edgar Allan Poe Square. [2] The statue depicts Poe walking, facing away from the Boston Common.
A devotional statue of Virgin Mary under the title of Rosa Mystica. A devotional image enshrined at the Maria Rosenberg Church in Waldfischbach-Burgalben, Germany, holds an 1138 painting of Mary, featuring roses. John Henry Newman said, Mary is the most beautiful flower ever seen in the spiritual world.
Poe's writing reflects his literary theories: he disagreed with didacticism [3] and allegory. [4] Meaning in literature, he said in his criticism, should be an undercurrent just beneath the surface; works whose meanings are too obvious cease to be art. [5] Poe pursued originality in his works, and disliked proverbs. [6]
Poe lived in at least three different locations in Philadelphia, including homes on Arch Street, on 16th and Locust Streets, and on Coates Street near 25th Street. [3]While living in Philadelphia, Poe published some of his most well-known works, including "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," and "The Gold-Bug". [4]
Poe purposely presents the story as a sort of mystification, inviting readers to surmise the old man's secret themselves. [4] At the beginning of the tale, the narrator surveys and categorizes the people around him in a similar way as Walt Whitman in "Song of Myself". Poe's narrator, however, lacks Whitman's celebratory spirit. [7]
In referring to Helen, Poe is alluding to Helen of Troy who is considered to be the most beautiful woman who ever lived — according to the goddess Venus in the myth referred to as The Judgement of Paris. Helen of Troy was "the face that launched a thousand ships" such as the "Nicean barks" of the poem.
The Poe Museum is located at the "Old Stone House", built circa 1740 [3] [4] and cited as the oldest original residential building in Richmond. [5]It was built by Jacob Ege, [6] [7] who immigrated from Germany to Philadelphia in 1738 and came to the James River Settlements and Col. Wm. Byrd's land grant (now known as Richmond) in the company of the family of his fiancée, Maria Dorothea ...