OK my brother is doing his senor paper over Edgar Allan Poe and i was wondering if there is any information?

Question

that you could give me over this writer. anything would hlep.

we have the basic information but we need more. so for you assholes shut up, and get lost

Answer 1

Try bau2.uibk.ac.at/sg/poe/

This site is probably the best. It covers his life and has etexts of his works.

Answer 2

Me gusta Senor Poe. Me gusta mucho.

OK, seriously, one thing that you might not have is that he made a lot of enemies during his life by writing blistering reviews of popular books, poems, etc., claiming they were just not up to the high standards set by his work. He was simultaneously self-loatihing and egomaniacal; in fact some historical psychologists (yes, there are real people who do this) think he was likely to be what is now called bipolar II, or manic depressive with the emphasis on depressive. This is only borne out by his alcoholism, a common self-medication of bipolar people.
Although he is well-known for his horror writing, and as the father of the detective story, it's not as well known that he wrote several science fiction stories as well, including a diary of a man's trip to the moon by balloon, probably because these aren't as good as his horror stories.

Answer 3

A few corrections:
-The name "Allan" was the last name of the family that raised him (his parents died when he was 2.)

-He didn't actually claim his own work set the standard; he was doing his job as a critic, and if you'll read some of the stuff he had to review, you'll see he was pretty well justified in tearing it to shreds. He was one of the few that based his judgements on the actual literary merit (or lack thereof) in those days, when other magazine editors "bepuffed" their friends' books without even reading them. He was pretty sarcastic about it, so understandably, people got ticked off - but considering the practices of other magazine editors and the state of American literature at the time, it wasn't entirely uncalled for.
Here's one of his reviews:
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/POE/drake_halleck.html

Here is a good source for general info:
http://www.eapoe.org/

Critical essays:
http://www.poedecoder.com/

And a little known, but quite amazing, book Poe wrote near the end of his life that anticipates the Big Bang theory:
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/poe/eureka.html

Answer 4

There's a Poe Society, it's kind of a secret society of people that just live and breathe Edgar Poe...
I know his middle name wasnt really "Allan", that was a name of...an uncle (?) he lived with...aunt or uncle who took him in, something like that...
he was very poor most of his life, never considered successful when he was alive, in fact he was so poor he couldnt afford a doctor for his wife and she died...
My favorite adaptation of a Poe story is the tell-tale heart...BY THE SIMPSONS Cartoon!!! LOVED it! Lisa hid her grade-rival's ticking Poe diorama...it was great!

Answer 5

Try using the google.com search
engine and type in "Edgar Allen Poe".

Answer 6

Well, no library books would contain this secret information, nor would you find in on the Web at Google or Wikipedia, so I guess your brother is out of luck.

Answer 7

Quoth the raven: "Nevermore."