Edgar Allan Poe

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to do a Subject Search using the following

Search Terms -
Edgar Allan Poe
Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 -- Criticism and Interpretation
Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849
Short Stories, American
American Poetry

Call Numbers for Books on this subject are usually
811 OR 813.3 OR 818
See Also: Biographies

General Encyclopedias are a good starting place to get basic, background information about a subject.
Use the Index (usually the last volume) to locate your subject.
The following sets of encyclopedias are available in our media center:

  • The World Book Encyclopedia
  • Encyclopedia Britannica
  • Compton's Encyclopedia

    • Print Resources - Circulating Books:
    Tales of Poe - 813.3 TAL
    Complete Poems - 811 POE
    Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe - 813 POE
    Critical Essays on Edgar Allan Poe - 818 CRI
    Readings on Edgar Allan Poe - 818 REA
    Readings on the Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe - 813 REA
    Edgar Allan Poe - 818 BUR
    Lives and Works: Young Adult Authors, Vol 6 - 810.8 LIV
    The Tell-Tale Heart : The Life and Works of Edgar Allan Poe - B POE

    Print Resources - Reference Books:
    Poets: American and British, Vol II - REF 821.009 POE
    Literary Lifelines, Vol 8 - REF 809 LIT
    American Writers - REF 810 AME
    Supernatural Fiction Writers - REF 809.3 SUP
    World Poets, Vol 2 - REF 809.1 WOR
    Literature and Its Times, Vol 2 - REF 809 LIT

    Online Databases -
    If you plan on accessing these sites from home,
    be sure to ask the media specialists for the password-you'll need it!
    Grolier Multimedia Online
    eLibrary

    Websites -

    The Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore http://www.eapoe.org/
    Edgar Allan Poe Museum http://www.poemuseum.org/index.html
    The Literature Network: Edgar Allan Poe http://www.online-literature.com/poe/
    From Revolution to Reconstruction: An Outline of American Literature-The Romantic Period http://grid.let.rug.nl/~usa/LIT/poe.htm
    Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum - City of Baltimore, Maryland - http://www.ci.baltimore.md.us/government/historic/poehouse.html
    Qrisse's Edgar Allan Poe Pages - http://www.poedecoder.com/Qrisse/

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