Recent literature citations by opinion writers include “Lord of the Rings,” “Legend of Sleepy Hollow” and “The Tell-Tale Heart.”
Tag Archives: Edgar Allan Poe
Vlad’s Black Riders, Trump’s Tell-Tale Heart
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Amanda Marcotte, Greg Olear, J.R.R. Tolkien, Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Lord of the Rings, Secret police, Tell-Tale Heart, Trump trials, Washington Irving Comments closed
The Team Named After a Poem
The Baltimore Ravens, headed for the AFC championship game, are the only team named after a poem. In some ways, the poem fits them.
On Friday 13 and Black Cats
A post on Friday 13 and black cats, with thoughts on Poe and a Rilke cat poem.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Black Cat, black cats, Friday 13, Pogo, Rainer Maria Rilke, superstitions, Walt Kelly Comments closed
It Was in the Bleak December
Poe’s “The Raven” is one way to usher in “bleak December.” The poem works on the play between madness and reason.
The Pit, the Pendulum, and Covid Relief
If Covid has offered a choice between the pit and the pendulum, then the vaccines and the Covid relief bill have been the liberating French army.
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Not Poe’s Red Death but Still Dangerous
Poe’s “Masque of the Red Death” captures the belief that we can wall out epidemics and then dance the night away.
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Repressed Violence in Southern Gothic Lit
In my course on American Gothic Supernatural lit, I contrasted “Turn of the Scre”w with “Wizard of Oz” and then glanced at Southern Gothic lit.
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To Understand America, Read Gothics
In a course on American supernatural gothic fiction, I argue that Poe pushed back against the Enlightenment and Hawthorne against Puritanism.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Birthmark, Black Cat, gothic fiction, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Scarlet Letter, Tell-Tale Heart, Young Goodman Brown Comments closed
