Poe

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,

Unwrapping A Mummy

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

Miners Digging for Gold

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

Walking with Eddie: Edgar Allan Poe and Science—Part I

This article was originally written by Murray Ellison and is being republished by him here with the generous permission of the Edgar Allan Poe Museum in Richmond, Virginia (www.poemuseum.org). The