“Tyler’s” letter proposes two additional challenging ciphers— and these were the only “legitimate” ones that Poe was never able to solve.” Poe published several columns on Cryptography, which he
Category: Edgar Allan Poe
Poe Exposes “Maelzel’s Automated Chess Player,” Part II
Originally Published as part of Murray Ellison’s M.A Thesis on Poe and Science and republished on Dec. 2nd, 2017 on www.thepoeblog.com Original Illustration Published in Poe’s “Automated Chess-Player” In 1836,
How Poe Investigated Claims of an Early “Automated” Computer
An Excerpt from Murray Ellison’s 2015 VCU Master of Arts Thesis. First Published on 11/1/17 in the Poe Museum’s Website: the poeblog.org Literary Historian, Gerald Kennedy writes, “In Poe’s writing career
Poe’s First Published Story About a Shipwreck Foreshadows Eureka
Poe’s first published tale, “MS. Found in a Bottle,” (1833) won the Baltimore Visitor first prize for fiction. Poe scholar, Thomas Mabbott, calls it a “masterpiece,” and contends that, “winning
What Was Poe’s Attitude About Science?*
By the time that Edgar Allan Poe started writing professionally, the Industrial Revolution had introduced many dramatic advancements that affected the lifestyles and culture of the nineteenth-century public. For example,
Poe Has “Some Words With a Mummy”
Poe’s tale, “Some Words with a Mummy” (1845) provides one of his most informative views about the value of nineteenth-century science. Although the narrator of this short story does not
Private Perry is Mr. Poe
This article is excerpted from Murray’s VCU, MA Thesis. © by the author 2015. It also is being reprinted with permission from the Poe Museum and their website: www.poemuseum.org (Poe &
The Challenge of Evaluating Poe’s, Eureka: A Prose Poem
Reprinted with permission from the Richmond, Virginia Poe Museum In my last column, I discussed the reasons that I decided not to focus my entire Master’s Thesis research on Poe’s
Remembering the Positively Poe Conference at the University of Virginia
I first published this article on the Edgar Allan Poe Museum Website (www.poemuseum.org) on 7/28/2016. It is being republished here on Litchatte.com with the permission of the Museum In 1818,
Proposing to Evalaute Poe’s Eureka: A Prose Poem
First, I am going to propose what a researcher might have to do to conduct a comprehensive study of Poe’s 1848 book, Eureka: A Prose Poem. Then, I am going to