A powerful snowstorm in January 2018 permitted me the opportunity, as the Coordinator of the Classic Book Club near Richmond, VA, to re-schedule our discussion of The Great Gatsby to
Poe and the Gothic Uncertainties of 19th-Century Science
(Excerpt from Murray Ellison’s 2015 VCU M.A.Thesis on Poe and 19th-Century Science ©. Reprinted from www.thepoeblog.org – 11/27/2018). Several researchers have proposed that late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century Gothic writers
It’s December and Time to Remember “The Raven”
“Tis the season of Advent on the Christian calendar, but Edgar A Poe is sitting in a dark and gloomy room alone on a blustery December evening in Philadelphia
Poe’s Balloon Hoax Yields Diamonds in the Sky – Part II of II
As I noted in Part I of this column, J. Harris was one of the many researchers who connected Locke’s “Moon Hoax” with Poe’s April 1844 New York Sun columns on
Poe’s Great Balloon Hoax – Part I of II
This article is an excerpt from Murray Ellison’s VCU MA Thesis on Poe and Nineteenth-Century Science, ©2015. It was first published 8/20/2018 on the Richmond, VA Poe Museum Website: www.poemuseum.org Near
Poe Among the First to Promote Photography
*This essay is part of Murray Ellison’s Master’s Thesis from Virginia Commonwealth University on Edgar Allan Poe and Science©. This column was first published on the www.thepoeblog.org Seldom considered among
Who Wrote Poe’s Best-Selling Book on Seashells?
The Conchologist’s First Book was first published in April 1839, with its author being listed as Edgar Allan Poe. However, Poe was a consulting editor of the book and only wrote the
“Studying a Shoe” and Other Osher Summer Workshop Poems
The Osher Institute’s (at the University of Richmond) first summer Poetry Appreciation Workshops was attended by a small group of between 6 and 8 students, including some who had not
The Frozen Silence and a Crescent Moon: Synesthesia and Non-Standard Poetic Forms
This blog covers two of the most unusual aspects of poetry, i.e., the uses of Synesthesia and of non-standard poetic forms, Synesthesia refers to a technique adopted by writers to
“How to Be a Poet”- Revisiting Wendell Berry
I am bringing back a Poetry Workshop blog from April 9, 2016, on “How to Be a Poet by Wendell Berry. Here it is, mostly as it was originally posted