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  2. A Dream Within a Dream - Wikipedia

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    The Alan Parsons Project's album Tales of Mystery and Imagination (Edgar Allan Poe) opens with an instrumental homage to the poem also titled "A Dream Within a Dream". Its 1987 re-release included a narration of the original poem by Orson Welles. The Propaganda album A Secret Wish, released in 1985, opens with the track "Dream Within A Dream ...

  3. Edgar Allan Poe - Wikipedia

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    The Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site in Philadelphia, one of several preserved former residences of Poe No childhood home of Poe is still standing, including the Allan family's Moldavia estate. The oldest standing home in Richmond , the Old Stone House, is in use as the Edgar Allan Poe Museum , though Poe never lived there.

  4. Poems by Edgar Allan Poe - Wikipedia

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    James H. Whitty discovered the poem and included it in his 1911 anthology of Poe's works under the title "From an Album". It was also published in Thomas Ollive Mabbott's definitive Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe in 1969 as "An Acrostic". The poem mentions "Endymion", possibly referring to an 1818 poem by John Keats with that name.

  5. To Helen - Wikipedia

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    "To Helen" is the first of two poems to carry that name written by Edgar Allan Poe. The 15-line poem was written in honor of Jane Stanard, the mother of a childhood friend. [1] It was first published in the 1831 collection Poems of Edgar A. Poe. It was subsequently reprinted in the March 1836 issue of the Southern Literary Messenger.

  6. Ligeia - Wikipedia

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    "Ligeia" (/ l aɪ ˈ dʒ iː ə /) is an early short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1838. The story follows an unnamed narrator and his wife Ligeia, a beautiful and intelligent raven-haired woman.

  7. Tamerlane and Other Poems - Wikipedia

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    The poem may also mirror Poe's relationship with his foster father John Allan; similar to Poe, Tamerlane is of uncertain parentage, with a "feigned name". [ 23 ] The "other poems", which Poe admitted "perhaps savour too much of egotism; but they were written by one too young to have any knowledge of the world but from his own breast". [ 22 ]

  8. Al Aaraaf - Wikipedia

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    "Al Aaraaf" is the longest poem Poe wrote [1] and was inspired by Tycho Brahe's identification of a supernova in 1572 which was visible for about seventeen months. [2] Poe identified the supernova with Al Aaraaf, a star that was the place between paradise and hell.

  9. The Raven - Wikipedia

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    The Raven" is a narrative poem by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. First published in January 1845, the poem is often noted for its musicality, stylized language and supernatural atmosphere. It tells of a distraught lover who is paid a visit by a mysterious raven that repeatedly speaks a single word.