(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
Tag: Edgar Allan Poe
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
A Trip Takes Us: My Journey from Poe to Steinbeck
After retiring, I began to study, teach, and write reflections on several of the most significant American writers of the last two centuries. I started my focus on the
A Pallatte of Litchatte Posts from July 2016 through July 2017
Dr. Murray Ellison received a Master’s in Education from Temple University (1973), a Master’s Degree of Arts in English Literature from Virginia Commonwealth University (2015), and a Doctorate in
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
Poe’s “Oval Portrait” and The Picture of Dorian Gray
After reading Oscar Wilde’s, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), I was struck by how much his theme about the value of art resembled the one found in 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,
Bringing Litchatte.com Back on Line___________________!
My apologies to the regular and new Litchatte.com readers and subscribers. My site was essentially offline for the last week or so. While I was working with the developers to
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
Litchatte Rear-View Mirror, January Thru May, 2016
After graduating from Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) in December 2015 with a Master’s of Arts Degree in English Literature, I decided to write a blog focusing on literature and poetry.
