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Poe as a Popularizer of Nineteenth-Century Sceince
Sir Isaac Newton Working on Geometric Problem – 1795 Ink and Water Color by William Blake (Public Domain Image from www.blake.archive) Poe as a Popularizer of Nineteenth-Century Science Several...
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In Being Guided by Edgar Allan Poe – A Re-Introduction to the “Poe and...
Rare first Edition Versions of Eureka: A Prose Poem, Published in 1848 On Being Guided by Edgar Allan Poe—A Re-Introduction to the “Poe and Science Blog,” by Dr. Murray Ellison Most people would most...
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Walking Up Poe’s Stairway
Stairs to Poe’s Childhood Home in Richmond-now located in the Poe Museum The Poe Museum’s Curator, Chris Semtner, took down the golden fabric rope from the railing. With his simple routine, I began...
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Poe’s Importance in the History of Science
As my Blog on Poe and Science advances, I will be documenting the process I followed in collecting and evaluating research about Poe and Science. In December 2015, this project led to the completion...
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Conducting a Comprehensive Study of Poe’s, Eureka: A Prose Poem
By Murray Ellison Nineteenth-Century Science First, I am going to propose what a researcher might have to do to conduct a comprehensive study of Poe’s 1848 book, Eureka: A Prose Poem. Then, I am going...
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Third Anniversary of the Positively Poe Conference at the University of Virginia
Poe was in the second class of students who attended the University of Virginia, in Charlottesville. According to the UVA Website(aig.alumni.virginia.edu), “Edgar Allan Poe enrolled at the University...
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The Challenge of Evaluating Poe’s, Eureka: A Prose Poem
Was Poe Searching for Gold in Eureka: A Prose Poem? In my last column, I discussed the reasons that I decided not to focus my entire Master’s Thesis research on Poe’s Eureka: A Prose Poem. That...
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Private Perry is Mr. Poe
Poe in 1848 wearing his West Point Great Coat John Limon argues that Poe was one of the first American writers who was important both to the fields of literature and science because he engaged in...
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Some Words About Poe’s Tale About a Mummy*
Gentlemen Interview a Mummy. Image from https://i.ytimg.com Poe’s tale, “Some Words with a Mummy” (1845) provides one of his most informative views about the value of nineteenth-century science....
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Sonnet-to Science: Poe’s Early Ambivalence About 19th-Century Technologies
By the time that Poe started writing professionally, the Industrial Revolution had already introduced many dramatic advancements that affected the lifestyles and culture of the nineteenth-century...
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