From Out That Shadow: the Life and Legacy of Edgar Allan Poe
Poet, literary critic, visionary, inventor of the detective
story, master of the macabre — this was Edgar Allan Poe.
Recognized as one of the most influential and widely read
American authors of the nineteenth century, the writer's work
fascinates schoolchildren and scholars alike. On his two-
hundredth birthday, Poe yet lives. His poem, "The Raven," is one
of the most memorable in the English language, and his highly
original tales, including "The Pit and the Pendulum" and "The
Tell-Tale Heart," continue to amaze and terrify. Celebrating the
bicentennial of Edgar Allan Poe, From Out That Shadow was
created out of a partnership between the Mary and David Harrison
Institute of American History, Literature, and Culture and the
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library at the
University of Virginia, and the Harry Ransom Center at the
University of Texas at Austin. This website is the University of
Virginia Library's digital complement to From