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Broadly stated, copyright regulations allow for most material printed before 1923 to be in the public domain. Anyone seeking to use this material should consult the appropriate copyright laws, as suitable. The principles of fair use generally allow for references and judicious quotation (properly credited), particularly for scholarly articles, student papers, and other educational purposes.

It should be noted that information and views expressed in these articles and essays reflect the research and opinions of the authors.

Items here are generally listed chronologically, although some sequences of closely related subjects are grouped together. Reprinted items are listed under the earliest date of publication.

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~~ 1900-1909 ~~

“Rufus W. Griswold” by George Eveleth Washington, New York Times Saturday Review, March 10, 1900
“Poe and ‘The Raven’ ” by anonymous, Mail and Express (New York, NY), April 21, 1900
“She was the Friend of Poe and a Playmate of Patti” by anonymous, Newark Courier (Newark, NY), July 19, 1900
“Poe's Rank as a Writer” by William Peterfield Trent, East & West, August 1900
“New Glimpses of Poe” (The Independent, 1900)
- “New Glimpses of Poe (I)” by James A. Harrison (The Independent, September 6, 1900) (recollections by Thomas H. Ellis)
- “New Glimpses of Poe (II)” by James A. Harrison (The Independent, September 13, 1900) (recollections by William Wertenbaker)
- “New Glimpses of Poe (III)” by James A. Harrison (The Independent, September 20, 1900) (recollections by B. L. Gildersleeve and O. P. Fitzgerald)
- New Glimpses of Poe by James A. Harrison, New York: M. F. Mansfield & Company, 1901 (a small book essentially collecting the individual articles above, with some minor introductory material and a few words promoting the Poe Memorial Association of the University of Virginia)
“Unpublished Recollections of Edgar Allan Poe” by Edward M. Alfriend, Literary Era, August 1901
“Poe's Student Days at the University of Virginia”
- “Poe's Student Days at the University of Virginia” by Charles W. Kent, The Unveiling of the Bust of Edgar Allan Poe, 1901 (preface dated May 1901)
- “Poe's Student Days at the University of Virginia” by Charles W. Kent, Bookman, July 1901
- “Poe's Student Days at the University of Virginia” by Charles W. Kent, Bookman, January 1917 (reprint of the previous item, lacking the illustrations and with minor changes not affecting the information given about Poe)
“Memorials of Edgar Allan Poe” by General James Grant Wilson, the Independent, April 25, 1901
“An Episode in the Early Life of Poe” by Charles W. Kent, Century Magazine, October 1901
“Edgar Allan Poe” by Barrett Wendell, A Literary History of America, New York: Scribner's Sons, 1901
“The Case of Macaulay v. Poe” by Jesse Turner, Report of the Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Meeting of the Bar Association of Arkansas, May 27-28, 1902
“[Reminiscences by Alexander Taylor Crane], Sunday World-Herald (Omaha, NE)
- “Man Who Knew Edgar Allen [[Allan]] Poe Well Tells Incidents of His Life” by H. E. N., Sunday World-Herald (Omaha, NE), July 13, 1902
- “Friend of Poe to Whom the Young Poet Was Knight Errant and Hero of His Childhood” by Anonymous, Sunday World-Herald (Omaha, NE), August 6, 1911
“Edgar Poe's Last Night in Richmond” by Dr. John Carter, Lippincott's Monthly Magazine (November 1902)
“The Poe Cult” by Eugene L. Didier, Bookman (New York, NY) (December 1902)
“New Editions of Poe [Review of the Harrison Edition of The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe]” by George E. Woodberry, Nation, December 4, 1902
The Life and Letters of Edgar Allan Poe by Dr. James A. Harrison (book — New York: T. Y. Crowell, 1903, 2 vols.)
- Volume 1 (biography)
- Volume 2 (letters)
“The Poe-Chivers Papers; The first authentic Account of One of Poe's Most Interesting Friendships” by George E. Woodberry, Century Magazine (January-February 1903)
- “The Poe-Chiver Papers” by George E. Woodberry, Century Magazine, January 1903
- “The Poe-Chiver Papers” by George E. Woodberry, Century Magazine, February 1903
“The Night I Saw and Heard Edgar Allan Poe,” by Bishop Oscar Penn Fitzgerald, Fifty Years: Observations — Opinions — Experience, Nashville, TN: The Publising House of the M. E. Church, 1903
“Reminiscences of Edgar A. Poe” by Mrs. Susan Archer Weiss (The Independent, May 5, 1904)
“Reminiscences of Edgar Allan Poe” by Mrs. Susan Archer Weiss (The Independent, August 25, 1904)
“Introduction” by Edward Everette Hale, Jr., Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe, 1904
“She Lives Over an Evening With Poe,” by Anonymous (New York Herald, February 19, 1905) (An alternate version, with a slighly different set of headlines, and omitting a small amount of text in regard to a daguerreotype of Poe, is in the Ingram collection at the University of Virginia: “Was a Friend of Poe,” by Anonymous, New York Herald, about February 19, 1905. Both articles bear the subheading: “Miss Ingram Tells of Poet's Gift of a Copy of Ulalume.”)
“Poe's Unhappy Sister” by Gilberta S. Whittle (Baltimore Sun, October 29, 1905)
“Some Memories of Poe” by Tula D. Pendleton (Bob Taylor's Magazine, March 1906)
“A Poe Miscellany” by James A. Harrison (The Independent, November 1, 1906)
“Poe as an Evolutionist” by Frederic Drew Bond (The Popular Science Monthly, September 1907)
The Home Life of Poe by Mrs. Susan Archer Weiss — New York: Broadway Publishing Company, 1907 (book)
“The Fame of Poe” by John A. Macy (Atlantic Monthly, December 1908)
“The Influence of E. T. A. Hoffman on the Tales of Edgar Allan Poe,” by Palmer Cobb, Studies in Philology, 1908
The Book of the Poe Centenary edited by Charles W. Kent and John S. Patton — Charlottesville, Virginia: University of Virginia, 1909) (book)
The Poe Cult and Other Poe Papers by Eugene L. Didier — New York: Broadway Publishing Company, 1909 (book)
“Edgar Allan Poe's Lost Poem ‘The Beautiful Physician’,” by John H. Ingram (Bookman, January 1909)
“The Last Letters of Edgar Allan Poe to Sarah Helen Whitman,” edited by James A. Harrison, New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, January 1909
“Edgar Allan Poe” by George Bernard Shaw, with replies, January 1909
- “Edgar Allan Poe” by George Bernard Shaw in the Nation (London, UK), January 16, 1909
- “Tennyson, Poe and Shaw” by Anonymous in the Academy (London, UK), January 23, 1909
- “Edgar Allan Poe” by Anonymous in the Spectator (London, UK), January 23, 1909
- “How the British Regard Poe — and America” by Anonymous in Literary Digest (New York, NY), February 13, 1909
“Poe in France” by Curtis Hidden Page in The Nation (New York, NY), January 14, 1909
“Dr. Browne Says There Is No Evidence That Poe Was Drunk When Taken to Hospital” by William Hand Browne in Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD), January 17, 1909
“Centennial of Edgar Allan Poe” a special Sunday section issued by Times Dispatch (Richmond), January 17, 1909
- “Literary Reputation Made in Richmond” by J. H. Whitty
- “Mrs. Clemm, Mainstay of Poe's Household” by J. A. Harrison
- “Poe's Footsteps Around Richmond” by A. M. Tyler
- “Richmond People Who Knew Poe” by J. L. West
- “Honors Memory of Great Poet” by L. Hawkins
- “Richmond Association to Meet in February” by Anonymous
- “Some Poe Counterfeits” by A. M. Tyler
“Poe and Baltimore” by Anonymous The Academy (London, UK), January 30, 1909
“Edgar Allan Poe: A Centenary Outlook” by Warren Barton Blake, The Dial (Chicago, IL), February 16, 1909, pp. 118-120
“Reflections on the Poe Centenary” by Thomas Seccombe, Cornhill Magazine (London, UK), March 1909
“Poe's Indebtedness to Byron,” by Killis Campbell, The Nation, March 11, 1909
“Poe and the Southern Literary Messenger in 1837,” by Killis Campbell, The Nation, July 1, 1909
The Life of Edgar Allan Poe by George E. Woodberry (book — Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1909, 2 vols.)
- volume 1
- volume 2
“Commemorations of Edgar Allan Poe” by Warren Barton Blake, The Dial (Chicago, IL), September 1, 1909, pp. 118-120
“The Case of Poe and His Critics” by Charles Leonard Moore, The Dial (Chicago, IL), November 16, 1909, pp. 367-370
“Bibliographical Notes on Poe,” by Killis Campbell, The Nation, December 23, 1909

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~~ 1910-1919 ~~

“The Source of Poe's Some Words With a Mummy” by Killis Campbell, The Nation (New York, NY), June 23, 1910
“Poe the Enchanter” by Arthur Machen, T. P.'s Weekly (London, UK), October 28, 1910
“Poe and the Hall of Fame” by James Routh, Alumni bulletin of the University of Virginia, January 1911
“News for Bibliophiles,” by Killis Campbell, The Nation, October 19, 1911, pp. 362-363
“Preface and Memoir” by James H. Whitty, The Complete Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1911
- “Preface” by James H. Whitty
- “Memoir” by James H. Whitty
“Some Unpublished Documents Relating to Poe's Early Years” by Killis Campbell, Sewanee Review, April 1912
“The Poe Canon” by Killis Campbell, Publications of the Modern Language Association (PMLA) (Baltimore, MD), September 1912, pp. 325-353
“Miscellaneous Notes on Poe” by Killis Campbell, Modern Language Notes, March 1913
“Capt. Wagner's Recollections of Edgar A. Poe” by Elisha Jay Edwards, Washington Herald (Washington, DC), December 2, 1913
“[‘The Main Facts in the Life of Poe’ and other introductory material]” by Killis Campbell, The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, Boston and New York: Ginn and Company, 1917 (revised 1926)
“New Notes on Poe's Early Years” by Killis Campbell, The Dial (Chicago, IL), February 17, 1916, pp. 143-146
“Gleanings in the Bibliography of Poe” by Killis Campbell, Modern Language Notes (Baltimore, MD), May 1917, pp. 267-272
“The Æsthetic Theory of Edgar Poe” by Summerfield Baldwin, Sewanee Review, April 1918
“[Review of The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, edited by Killis Campbell” by Earl L. Bradsher, Sewanee Review, April 1918
“The Poe-Griswold Controversy” by Killis Campbell, Publications of the Modern Language Association (PMLA) (Baltimore, MD), September 1919

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~~ 1920 ~~

“Poe and the Bible” by C. Alphonso Smith, Biblical Review, July 1920
“A Prohibitionist Shakes Dice with Poe” by Theodore Pease Sterns, The Outlook, September 1, 1920

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