Its Edgar Allan Poe's Bday!

♥Faerie♥
♥Faerie♥ Posts: 14,053 Member
edited September 23 in Chit-Chat
So to celebrate, if you like Poe's work, what is your favorite?

Mine would have to be The Raven, followed by The Oval Portrait.....but I find all his works to be fascinating....

So what's yours?

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  • Meganne1982
    Meganne1982 Posts: 451
    Tell-Tale Heart. And Raven.

    :)
  • RoadDog
    RoadDog Posts: 2,946 Member
    One of my favorite authors, when I was in HS. Tell Tale Heart always fascinated me.
  • Gizmo52
    Gizmo52 Posts: 43
    Quoth the Raven - Nevermore!
    closely followed by Annabelle Lee
    then the Tell Tale Heart!
  • nilisabel
    nilisabel Posts: 338
    The Fall of the House of Usher stuck with me through the years. Also, his instruction manual on how to be a writer. It's good stuff, but I think it's a little arrogant considering writing well is just a talent that comes easily to some people, could be satire. My fave author is Pynchon, all the way!
  • Sis73
    Sis73 Posts: 28 Member
    The Raven
    The Fall of the House of Usher
    Annabel Lee
    -Just my fav but love all his work
  • nilisabel
    nilisabel Posts: 338
    Do you think meaning comes from the author's intent or the reader's inference?
  • ZebraHead
    ZebraHead Posts: 15,207 Member
    In no order:

    The Pit and The Pendulum
    The Masque of The Red Death
    The Tell-Tale Heart
    The Raven
    The Cask of Amontillado
    The Fall of The House of Usher
    The Murders In The Rue Morque
    The Oblong Box
  • GravyGurl
    GravyGurl Posts: 1,070
    If I had to pick just one of his works it would be Annabel Lee
  • LokiFae
    LokiFae Posts: 774 Member
    I grew up on The Raven. My dad used to read it to me, so I like it for sentimental reasons. And, not surprisingly, when I got married, I married a man whose last name is Poe! How very gothic of me. :smile:
  • Voncreepy2
    Voncreepy2 Posts: 1,450 Member
    If I had to pick just one of his works it would be Annabel Lee

    Love Annabel Lee:heart:
  • ♥Faerie♥
    ♥Faerie♥ Posts: 14,053 Member
    I grew up on The Raven. My dad used to read it to me, so I like it for sentimental reasons. And, not surprisingly, when I got married, I married a man whose last name is Poe! How very gothic of me. :smile:

    That is awesome!
    I have often thought if I have a little girl I was going to name her Poe.....
  • Valqis
    Valqis Posts: 1,016 Member
    Tell tale Heart
    Raven

    Actually bought the complete works of Poe just to have them. spent 4.97 on them. Best 5 bucks EVER!!!
  • cheshirequeen
    cheshirequeen Posts: 1,324 Member
    the house of usher, the raven, and the pit and the pendulum, and tell tall heart
    its also cezanne's birthday
  • TheMaidOfAstolat
    TheMaidOfAstolat Posts: 3,222 Member
    LOVE them all!

    Fae- did you see the story this morning? The mystery rose and cognac giver failed to show up again this year. Granted this guy has been doing it for 60 years....I think he may have past on, it's so sad. I hope someone else will continue to leave these 'gifts' on Edgars grave every year.

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_poe_mystery_visitor
  • LokiFae
    LokiFae Posts: 774 Member
    That is awesome!
    I have often thought if I have a little girl I was going to name her Poe.....

    That would be really cute! I have two boys, and we seriously considered naming one of them Edgar or Allan, but decided against it. My brother in law goes by Poe. He's really short and dark complected, so it works for him.
  • deckerp
    deckerp Posts: 4,438 Member
    The Tell Tale Heart sticks out in my mind and The Raven is a classic. I remember Vincent Price in a movie on The Raven.

    Here's the update from The History Channel:

    On this day in 1809, poet, author and literary critic Edgar Allan Poe is born in Boston, Massachusetts.

    By the time he was three years old, both of Poe's parents had died, leaving him in the care of his godfather, John Allan, a wealthy tobacco merchant. After attending school in England, Poe entered the University of Virginia (UVA) in 1826. After fighting with Allan over his heavy gambling debts, he was forced to leave UVA after only eight months. Poe then served two years in the U.S. Army and won an appointment to West Point. After another falling-out, Allan cut him off completely and he got himself dismissed from the academy for rules infractions.

    Dark, handsome and brooding, Poe had published three works of poetry by that time, none of which had received much attention. In 1836, while working as an editor at the Southern Literary Messenger in Richmond, Virginia, Poe married his 13-year-old cousin, Virginia Clemm. He also completed his first full-length work of fiction, Arthur Gordon Pym, published in 1838. Poe lost his job at the Messenger due to his heavy drinking, and the couple moved to Philadelphia, where Poe worked as an editor at Burton's Gentleman's Magazine and Graham's Magazine. He became known for his direct and incisive criticism, as well as for dark horror stories like "The Fall of the House of Usher" and "The Tell-Tale Heart." Also around this time, Poe began writing mystery stories, including "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" and "The Purloined Letter"--works that would earn him a reputation as the father of the modern detective story.

    In 1844, the Poes moved to New York City. He scored a spectacular success the following year with his poem "The Raven." While Poe was working to launch The Broadway Journal--which soon failed--his wife Virginia fell ill and died of tuberculosis in early 1847. His wife's death drove Poe even deeper into alcoholism and drug abuse. After becoming involved with several women, Poe returned to Richmond in 1849 and got engaged to an old flame. Before the wedding, however, Poe died suddenly. Though circumstances are somewhat unclear, it appeared he began drinking at a party in Baltimore and disappeared, only to be found incoherent in a gutter three days later. Taken to the hospital, he died on October 7, 1849, at age 40.
  • mommared53
    mommared53 Posts: 9,543 Member
    I couldn't pick out a favorite but anything from Edgar Allen Poe reminds me of my high school teacher, Mr. Wellman. He used to read stories from Poe that just kept me captivated. Mr. Wellman had a special way of reading that just brought you into the story. What an outstanding reader he was! I graduated high school 40 years ago this year and I can still remember the way he would read. He was always my very favorite teacher.
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  • ♥Faerie♥
    ♥Faerie♥ Posts: 14,053 Member
    LOVE them all!

    Fae- did you see the story this morning? The mystery rose and cognac giver failed to show up again this year. Granted this guy has been doing it for 60 years....I think he may have past on, it's so sad. I hope someone else will continue to leave these 'gifts' on Edgars grave every year.

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_poe_mystery_visitor

    I did see that, I think he has pasted on as well, I really wish someone would carry on that tradition, such a bizarre and fitting thing for Poe's bday! If I lived there I would do it!
  • ZebraHead
    ZebraHead Posts: 15,207 Member
    LOVE them all!

    Fae- did you see the story this morning? The mystery rose and cognac giver failed to show up again this year. Granted this guy has been doing it for 60 years....I think he may have past on, it's so sad. I hope someone else will continue to leave these 'gifts' on Edgars grave every year.

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_poe_mystery_visitor

    I did see that, I think he has pasted on as well, I really wish someone would carry on that tradition, such a bizarre and fitting thing for Poe's bday! If I lived there I would do it!

    I thought the son of the original Toaster took over?
  • JillyBean819
    JillyBean819 Posts: 313 Member
    I LOVE Poe. My favorites are 'The Masque of the Red Death', 'The Raven', and 'The Tell-Tale Heart'.

    I bought a book at a bookstore about a year ago that has every poem and story he ever wrote. It is awesome!
  • UpToAnyCool
    UpToAnyCool Posts: 1,673
    >> All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream...

    I love the Raven and the Tell-Tale Heart! RIP, EAP.
  • ♥Faerie♥
    ♥Faerie♥ Posts: 14,053 Member
    LOVE them all!

    Fae- did you see the story this morning? The mystery rose and cognac giver failed to show up again this year. Granted this guy has been doing it for 60 years....I think he may have past on, it's so sad. I hope someone else will continue to leave these 'gifts' on Edgars grave every year.

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_poe_mystery_visitor

    I did see that, I think he has pasted on as well, I really wish someone would carry on that tradition, such a bizarre and fitting thing for Poe's bday! If I lived there I would do it!

    I thought the son of the original Toaster took over?

    But he didn't show up!!!!:sad:
  • chickadee2010
    chickadee2010 Posts: 1,389 Member
    I've only read the Tell Tale Heart. It was interesting.
  • Sweet13_Princess
    Sweet13_Princess Posts: 1,207 Member
    Yay, I love Poe! (I'm an English teacher, so I'm a literature nerd. *LOL*)

    My favorite is " Ligeia," which really freaks me out. I mean, was he drunk, high, or having psychotic hallucinations? Did he really kill his second wife or did his first wife never die at all. Or worse, what if she really did come back from the dead... FREAKY!

    I also love the "Tell-Tale Heart" and "The Black Cat," which were bedtime stories for me as a child. I know.... scarey stories for a kid, but I sure loved them. Maybe that's why I ended up becoming an English teacher and lean more towards darker stories and poems.:-)

    In any case.. Happy Birthday Poe! I wonder if the guy that disappeared last year will show up to put the rose and cognac on the grave. He stopped last year, which kind of made me sad.

    Shannon
  • VictorianJade
    VictorianJade Posts: 705 Member
    My favourite is Ligeia, followed by the Fall of the House of Usher.

    It's my mom's bday, too. :)
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