“The Mystery of Marie Roget” author

Usage examples of poe.

Edgar Allan Poe in 1849 has been uncovered through the following pages.

With the impetuousness of youth, I wrote to Poe himself for an answer, for I wanted to be able to envision every crevice and corner of the Poem.

Yet in Poe, while death is not a pleasant subject, it is not forbidden.

Theology tells us that spirits live on beyond the body, but Poe believes it.

As I read newspaper articles eulogizing Poe with bitter voices, my desire to protect his name only grew.

I explained that I had been studying clippings about Poe and had noticed important inconsistencies.

None of this is about Poe, it is about you wanting it to be about Poe!

I knew someone had to hold the truth of what had happened to Poe here in Baltimore, and that is what others must have feared.

Frustrated, I recalled an item about Neilson Poe I had read in the latest court columns of the newspapers and quickly gathered up my coat.

Neilson only saw Poe through a curtain, and he looked from that vantage point like another man altogether, or a ghost of a body he had known.

I happened to be carrying among my papers a portrait of Poe from a biographical article published a few years before.

I felt suddenly, each time I opened another Poe document, as though I was in an argument with Father, that he was trying to tear the very books out of my hands.

Besides, in my capacity as a man of business I had promised Poe, a prospective client, that I would defend him.

Edgar Poe in their hearing on the chance that Auntie Blum would find some excuse to inform Peter, or write a concerned epistle on the state of my life to my great-aunt, with whom she had been very hand and glove over the years.

Finally, some real proof that Poe had not entirely disappeared into the air of Baltimore after all!