In honor of National Poetry Month, here's a look at some of the bizarre and little-known facts about one of the most iconic American poets of all: Edgar Allan Poe.

Discover Why ‘The Raven,’ Edgar Allan Poe’s Narrative Poem About a Distraught Lover and a Talking Bird, Remains an American Classic Published on this day in 1845, the work used alliteration ...

It’s one of the most recognizable (and spookiest) poems in English. When Poe was writing “The Raven,” his wife, Virginia, was suffering from tuberculosis. It was a weird marriage—Virginia ...

Four years later he introduced into poetry the indelible phrase “Quoth the Raven ‘Nevermore.’” In his macabre short stories, victims are chained, set aflame, buried alive, strapped to ...

Edgar Allan Poe, who would have turned 214 years old on Jan. 19, 2023, remains one of the world’s most recognizable and popular literary figures.

Much has been written about Poe, known for macabre stories such as “The Cask of Amontillado,” “The Tell-Tale Heart” and the hauntingly melancholy poem “The Raven.” He spent 10 months studying at UVA ...

This one actually features the character of Edgar Allan Poe as himself, not an adaptation of one of his stories. Raven's Hollow follows Poe in his time as a cadet at West Point in upstate New York.