Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore - Papers

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1921-1929 1930-1939 1940-1949 1950-1959 1960-1969 1970-1979 1980-1989 1990-1999

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~~ 1921-1929 ~~

“Edgar Allan Poe in New York City” by Appleton Morgan — Valentine's Manual of Old New York, no. 5, New Series, New York: Valentine's Manual Inc, 1921, pp. 71-84 (another of Morgan's mostly dubious stories about Poe, largely repeating earlier claims of little merit)
“Pillow Case Held a Literary Treasure”
- “A Pillow Case of Literary Treasure” by George H. Sargent — Evening Transcript (Boston, MA), April 27, 1921 (third section), p. 4, cols. 1-4
- “Pillow Case Held a Literary Treasure” by George H. Sargent — Kansas City Star (Kansas City, MO), vol. 41, no. 235, May 10, 1921, p. 22, cols. 3-5 (reprinted from the Boston Transcript)
- “Poe's Letters and Manuscripts Found in a Pillow Case” by Anonymous — Current Opinion (New York, NY), vol. LXX, no. 6, June 1921, pp. 823-824
“Contemporary Opinnion of Poe” by Killis Campbell — Publications of the Modern Language Association (Baltimore, MD), vol. XXXVI, June 1921, pp. 142-166
“Poe and Emerson” by Leonidas Warren Payne, Jr. — Texas Review (Houston, TX), vol. VII, October 1921, pp. 54-69
“Edgar Allan Poe” by Elmer J. Bailey — in Religious Thought in the Greatest American Poets, Boston: Pilgrim Press, 1922, pp. 32-46
“Poe's Doctrine of Effect” by George F. Richardson — in University of California Publications in Modern Philology, vol. XI, 1922, pp. 179-186
“Poe's ‘Ulalume’,” by Fred Lewis Pattee — in Side-Lights on American Literature, New York: Century Co., 1922, pp. 327-342
“An Exchange Over Mount Tom
- “Poe and Mount Tom,” by Appleton Morgan — New York Herald (New York, NY), vol. LXXXVI, no. 305, July 1, 1922, p. 6, cols. 6-7
- “Poe and Mount Tom,” by Marning Cline — New York Herald (New York, NY), vol. LXXXVI, no. 313, July 9, 1922, p. 26, col. 5
- “Exploring Mount Tom,” by J. T. Lee and Thomas Ollive Mabbott — New York Herald (New York, NY), vol. LXXXVI, no. 314, July 10, 1922, p. 6, col. 5
- “Where Poe Rambled,” by S. A. Palmer — New York Herald (New York, NY), vol. LXXXVI, no. 318, July 14, 1922, p. 6, col. 5
- “Site of the Old Harsen House,” by Eli Benedict — New York Herald (New York, NY), vol. LXXXVI, no. 327, July 23, 1922, p. 26, col. 5
- “Poe and Mount Tom,” by Hopper Striker Mott — New York Herald (New York, NY), vol. LXXXVI, no. 332, July 28, 1922, p. 26, col. 5
“A Source for ‘Annabel Lee’,” by Robert A. Law — Journal of English and Germanic Philology (Urbana, IL), vol. XXI, no. 4, October 1922, pp. 341-346
“Did Poe Write It [[Alone]]?”
- “Did Poe Write It?” by Anonymous — Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, NY), September 24, 1922, p. 99, col. 6 (an inquiry by “Jamaica Reader” about “Alone” and a somewhat misleading reply from the editors)
- “The Poem ‘Alone’ by Poe” by J. H. Whitty — Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, NY), October 29, 1922, p. 80, col. 2 col. 6 (a response defending the authenticity of “Alone”)
“Edgar Allan Poe” by Fred Lewis Pattee, in The Development of the American Short Story, New York: Harper and Brothers, 1923, pp. 115-144
“Unpublished Letters of Edgar Allan Poe” by James Southall Wilson, Century Magazine (New York, NY), vol. 107, ns. vol. 85, no. 5, March 1924, pp. 652-656
“The Life and Writings of Henry Beck Hirst of Philadelphia” by Helen Lucile Watts (a Master of Arts Thesis, Colubmia Univerity, 1925)
“New Letters About Poe” by Stanley Thomas Williams (Yale Review, July 1925)
“Origins of Poe's Critical Theory” by Margaret Alterton (University of Iowa Humanistic Studies, vol. II, no. 3, April 15, 1925)
“Poe as a Critic” by George E. De Mille (American Mercury, April 1925)
“Mrs. Whitman Tells Her Story” by Edith Dickson (Dearborn Independent, October 3, 1925)
Edgar Allan Poe: The Man by Mary E. Phillips (book — Chicago: John C. Winston, 1926, 2 vols.) (in preparation for several years, but ultimately published about October 1926)
- Volume 1
- Volume 2
Israfel: The Life and Times of Edgar Allan Poe by Hervey Allen (book) (published about October 1926)
- Israfel: The Life and Times of Edgar Allan Poe by Hervey Allen (book — New York: George H. Doran, 1926, 2 vols.)
  - Volume 1
  - Volume 2
- Israfel: The Life and Times of Edgar Allan Poe by Hervey Allen (book — New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., 1934, revised edition)
Poe's Brother: The Poems of William Henry Leonard Poe, by Hervey Allen and Thomas Ollive Mabbott, New York: George H. Doran Company, 1926.
“ The French of Edgar Allan Poe,” by Edith Philips, American Speech (Baltimore, MD), vol. II, no. 6, March 1927, pp. 270-274
“Study of Poe is Exhaustive,” by Virginia Lee Cox, Richmond Times-Dispatch (Richmond, VA), vol. 76, no. 311, November 7, 1926, p. 52, cols. 1-2 (a review of Mary E. Phillips' Poe the Man)
French Language and French Influences in the Works of Edgar Allan Poe, by Rebecca Catherine Tansil (master's thesis — University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN) — June 1927
“ ‘Antediluvian Antiquities’: A Curiosity of American Literature and A Source of Poe's,” by Thomas Ollive Mabbott, American Collector (New York, NY), vol. IV, no. 4, July 1927, pp. 124-126
“Poeana,” by James H. Whitty, The Step Ladder (Chicago, IL), vol. XIII, no. 8, October 1927, pp. 225-243
“Marginalia on Longfellow, Lowell and Poe,” by Killis Campbell — Modern Language Notes (Baltimore, MD), vol. 42, no. 8, December 1927, pp. 516-521
Biblical Allusions in Poe, by Willam Mentzel Forrest, New York: The Macmillan Company, 1928.
Doings of Gotham: Poe's Contributions to “The Columbia Spy”, Pottsville, Pa.: Jacob E. Spannuth, 1929. (A limited edition reprint of 100 copies was published in 1974 by Folcroft Library Editions.)
The Genius and Character of Edgar Allan Poe, by John R. Thompson (edited by J. H. Whitty and J. H. Rindfleisch), privately printed, 1929.
“Introduction” by Hervey Allen — The Book of Poe, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1929, pp. xi-xvii

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~~ 1930-1939 ~~

“ Poe's Knowledge of the Bible,” by Killis Campbell — Studies in Philology (Chapel Hill, NC), vol. XXVII, no. 3, July 1930, pp. 546-124-126
“Poe and the Philadelphia Irish Citizen” by Thomas Ollive Mabbott (Journal of the American Irish Historical Society, 1931)
“The Devil Was In It” by James Southall Wilson — American Mercury (Camden, NJ) vol. XXIV, no. 94, October 1931, pp. 215-220
The Mind of Poe and Other Studies, by Killis Campbell, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1933. (Reprinted by Russell & Russell 1962)
“Bibliographical Note” by Thomas Ollive Mabbott (from the facsimile edition of Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems, New York: Facsimile Text Society, 1933)
“Bibliographical Note” by Killis Campbell (from the facsimile edition of Poems, New York: Facsimile Text Society, 1933)
Poe and The Southern Literary Messenger, by David K. Jackson, Richmond, VA: Press of the Dietz Printing Co., 1934.
“Four of Poe's Critiques in the Baltimore Newspapers” by David K. Jackson (Modern Language Notes, April 1935)
Poe's Craftmanship in the Short Story by Ruth Leigh Hudson (1935, dissertation)
Edgar Allan Poe and the Establishment of the Short Story by Arthur Hobson Quinn in American Fiction: An Historical and Critical Survey, New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1936, pp. 77-101
“Some Unpublished Letters of T. W. White to Lucian Minor” by David K. Jackson (Tyler's Quarterly Historical and Genealogical Magazine, April and July 1936)
- “Some Unpublished Letters to T. W. White to Lucian Minor [Part 01]” (April 1936)
- “Some Unpublished Letters to T. W. White to Lucian Minor [Part 02]” (July 1936)
“Edgar Allan Poe as Seer,” by Henry Travers Edge — Theosophical Forum (Point Loma, CA), vol. XI, no. 4, October 4, 1937, pp. 246-255
Edgar Allan Poe and Baron von Kempelen's Chess-Playing Automaton by Henry Ridgely Evans
- “Edgar Allan Poe and Magic,” by Henry Ridgely Evans, Kenton, Linking Ring (Bluffton, OH), September 1938
- Edgar Allan Poe and Baron von Kempelen's Chess-Playing Automaton, by Henry Ridgely Evans, Kenton, Ohio: International Brotherhood of Magicians, 1939.

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~~ 1940-1949 ~~

Sarah Helen Whitman, Seeress of Providence by John Grieg Varner (1940, dissertation)
A Canon of the Critical Works of Edgar Allan Poe, with a Study of Poe as Editor and Reviewer by William Doyle Hull, II (1941, dissertation)
Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical Biography by Arthur Hobson Quinn (1941, book)
“Introduction” by Thomas Ollive Mabbott (from the facsimile edition of Tamerlane and Other Poems, New York: Facsimile Text Society, 1941)
Merlin, Baltimore, 1827: Together with “Recollections of Edgar A. Poe”, ed. Thomas Ollive Mabbott, New York: Scholars’ Facsimiles & Reprints, 1941)
“Introduction and Digressions” by Thomas Ollive Mabbott (from the facsimile edition of The Raven and Other Poems, New York: Facsimile Text Society, 1942)
Edgar Allan Poe's Contributions to “Alexander's Weekly Messenger” (Clarence S. Brigham)
- “Edgar Allan Poe's Contributions to Alexander's Weekly Messenger” (Clarence S. Brigham, Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, vol. 52, part 1, April 1942, pp. 45-125 (subsequently issued as a separate item)
- Edgar Allan Poe's Contributions to “Alexander's Weekly Messenger” (Clarence S. Brigham, 1943) (this separate item is the usual form referenced, and so this is the version reproduced. It is a page for page reprint of the earlier form, with page numbers adjusted so that they begin at 1 rather than 45.)
The Histrionic Mr. Poe, by N. Bryllion Fagin, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1949.

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~~ 1950-1959 ~~

Science and Pseudo-Science in the Writings of Edgar Allan Poe by Carroll D. Laverty — 1951 doctoral dissertation
A Study of Edgar Allan Poe's Satiric Patterns by William Whipple, Jr. — 1951 doctoral dissertation
Chivers' Life of Poe, edited with an introduction by Richard Beale Davis, New York: E. P. Dutton & Co, 1952
The Early Political and Literary Career of Thomas Dunn English by William Henry Gravely, Jr. — 1953 doctoral dissertation
Poe and the New York Literati by James B. Reece, 1954, doctoral dissertation
“Tentative Checklist of Translations of Poe's Works (1844-1899)” by William T. Bandy (self-published mimeograph, May 2, 1959)

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~~ 1960-1969 ~~

Poe's Literary Battles: The Critic in the Context of His Literary Milieu, by Sidney P. Moss (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1963).
New York City in the Tales of Poe, Bronx County Historical Society Journal (Bronx, NY), vol. II, no. 1, January 1965, pp. 16-22
Poe in Imaginative Literature: A Study of American Drama, Fiction, and Poetry Devoted to Edgar Allan Poe (John Edward Reilly, 1965 doctoral dissertation)
An Index to Poe's Critical Vocabulary, by J. Lasley Dameron and Louis Charles Stagg (Hartford, CT: Transcendental Books, 1966). (This index is keyed to the Harrison volumes)
Charles Frederick Briggs by Bette Statsky Weidman (1968, disseration)
Early Nineteenth-Century Medicine in Poe's Short Stories by David Edward Edison Sloane (1966, Master of Arts Thesis)
“The Lesser Death-Watch and ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’ ” (John E. Reilly, ATQ, 2nd Quarter, 1969, revised 2001)
Edgar A. Poe: The Rationale of Verse — a preliminary edition, by J. Arthur Greenwood, Princeton, NJ: Wolfhart Book Co, 1968 (with introduction, notes and index by J. Arthur Greenwood).
Poe, Journalist and Critic, by Robert D. Jacobs (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1969).
Poe and the British Magazine Tradition, by Michael Allen — New York and London: Oxford University Press, 1969

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~~ 1970-1979 ~~

New Approaches to Poe: A Symposium, edited by Richard P. Benton — Hartford, CT: Transcendental Books, 1970
Poe's Major Crisis: His Libel Suit and New York's Literary World, by Sidney P. Moss (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1970).
Discoveries in Poe ” (Burton R. Pollin, University of Notre Dame Press, 1970)
“Poe's ‘Lionizing’ and the Design of Tales of the Folio Club” (Alexander Hammond, ESQ, 3rd Quarter, 1972)
Papers on Poe: Essays in Honor of John W. Ostrom, edited by Richard Veler — Springfield, OH: Chantry Music Press, 1972
“The Books in the House of Usher” by Thomas Ollive Mabbott, Books At Iowa, Number 19, November 1973, pp. 3-7
Poe's Fiction: Romantic Irony in the Gothic Tales (G. R. Thompson, 1973)
Poe as Literary Cosmologer: Studies on Eureka, a Symposium (edited by Richard P. Benton, Hartford, CT: Transcendental Books, 1975)
Building Poe Biography by John Carl Miller (1977, book)
Poe in Philadelphia, 1838-1844: A Documentary Record (Dwight R. Thomas, 1978 doctoral dissertation)
Journey Into the Center — Studies in Poe's Pym, ed. Richard P. Benton, ATQ (University of Rhode Island), Winter 1978, vol. 7
Poe's Helen Remembers by John Carl Miller (1979, book)
“Introduction to the AMS Edition” (AMS Press reprint of the 1902 Harrison Edition, 1979)

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~~ 1980-1989 ~~

Selections from the Criticism of Edgar Allan Poe (ed. F. C. Prescott, 1909, new edition, New York: Gordian Press, 1981)
- “New Preface” by J. Lasley Dameron
- “New Introduction” by Eric Carlson
Poe and the Perfectability of Man (Richard A. Fusco, May 1982 Master's Thesis)
“The Varied and Variable Writer, Mr. Poe” by Burton R. Pollin, accompanying a facsimile edition of Tales of Mystery and Imagination, Birmingham, AL: Oxmoor House, 1982
The Poe Log: A Documentary Life of Edgar Allan Poe, 1809-1849 (Dwight R. Thomas and David K. Jackson, 1987, book)
The Portraits and Daguerreotpes of Edgar Allan Poe by Michael J. Deas (1989, book)

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~~ 1990-1999 ~~

“The Authorship of the ‘Paulding-Drayton Review’” (Joseph V. Ridgely, PSA Newsletter, Fall 1992)
“Authorship of Three Long Critical and Autobiographical Articles of 1843 Now Authenticated” by Burton R. Pollin, American Renaissance Literary Report (Hartford, CT), Fall 1993, pp. 139-171 (Pollin argues for Poe as author of three long articles from the Philadelphia Saturday Museum of 1843. His conclusions are still debated.)
Flora and Fauna in the Works of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Index ” (William C. Woolfson, 1992)
Two Poe Essays by Kathleen Brown (1947-2025) (These two essays were originally written for a class on Media Rhetoric and Aesthetic. Although not intended for publication, they are presented here in fond memory of our long-time board member. It might also be noted that both papers were given an A grade by Dr. Cosmos, the instructor. Dr. Brown had worked for the great opera singer Rosa Ponselle, and taught English and literature for many years at Villa Julie and when the college became Stevenson University.)
- ‘Poe, Pipes, and Pathos’,” (January 23, 1995)
- “ ‘Evermore!,’ a celebration of the 150th anniversary of Poe's “The Raven’,” (April 24, 1995)

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Articles and Essays, 1921-1999