∞∞∞∞∞∞∞
Sections: Biography Letters Criticism Bibliography
∞∞∞∞∞∞∞
Phillip Pendleton Cooke
(Born: October 26, 1816 - Died: January 21, 1850)
American author and poet. He married Anne Corbin Burwell on April 11, 1837. They had three daughters. In 1834, he attended the College of New Jersey. In 1840, he was living in Winchester, Virginia. He is buried in Old Chapel Cemetery, Millwood, Clarke County, Virginia.
His brother was John Esten Cooke (1830-1886), a novelist who also wrote a criticism of Poe, for which the manuscript remained unpublished until 1946.
- Review of Froissart Ballads and Other Poems (?) (May 1847, text “A” — Graham’s)
- Notice from “Autography”
- “P. P. Cooke ” (“A Chapter on Autography” - part II) — December 1841 — Graham’s Magazine
∞∞∞∞∞∞∞
- P. P. Cooke to E. A. Poe - September 16, 1839
- E. A. Poe to P. P. Cooke - September 21, 1839 (OL#82/OS#82)
- P. P. Cooke to E. A. Poe - December 19, 1839
- E. A. Poe to P. P. Cooke - January 12, 1846 (?) (address of letter only) (OS4#224b)
- E. A. Poe to P. P. Cooke - April 16, 1846 (dated April 16, 1842) (OL#227)
- P. P. Cooke to E. A. Poe - August 4, 1846
- E. A. Poe to P. P. Cooke - August 9, 1846 (OL#240)
∞∞∞∞∞∞∞
- Duyckinck, E. A. and G. L., “Philip Pendleton Cooke,” Cyclopedia of American Literature, New York: Charles Scribner, 1856, 2:635-636
- Heartman, Charles F. and James R. Canny, A Bibliography of First Printings of the Writings of Edgar Allan Poe, Hattiesburg, MS: The Book Farm, 1943.
- Mabbott, Thomas Ollive, ed., The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Vols 2-3 Tales and Sketches), Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1978. (Second printing 1979)
- Noble, Donald R., Jr. “Philip Pendleton Cooke,” The Dictonary of Literary Biography (Vol 3: Antebellum Writers in New York and the South, edited by Joel Myerson), Detroit, MI: Gale Research Company, 1979, pp. 72-73
- Thomas, Dwight and David K. Jackson, The Poe Log: A Documentary Life of Edgar Allan Poe 1809-1849, Boston: G. K. Hall & Sons, 1987.
- Wilson, James Grant and John Fiske, eds., Appleton’s Cyclopedia of American Biography, New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1889, 1:720 (in an entry on John Rogers Cooke)
∞∞∞∞∞∞∞
[S:0 - JAS] - Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore - People - Phillip Pendleton Cooke