43. WRITERS: Edgar Allan Poe in Providence

Weird Island

Episode Description:

While he never lived in Rhode Island, Edgar Allan Poe famously spent time here at the end of his life. He courted a Providence writer, Sarah Helen Whitman, and spent time at her East Side home, Swan Point Cemetery and the Athenaeum.

Episode Source Material:

• About… – Edgar Allan Poe: Rhode Island
• Sarah Helen Whitman, Providence Poet Who Dumped Edgar Allan Poe - New England Historical Society
• Sarah Helen Whitman, Providence Poet Who Dumped Edgar Allan Poe - New England Historical Society
• Sarah Helen Whitman - Wikipedia
• Sarah Helen Whitman | Poetry Foundation
• Sarah Helen Whitman | Biography, Books, & Facts | Britannica
• Ulalume - Wikipedia
• Poe & Whitman
• Benefit Street: Sarah Helen Whitman Residence, Rose Garden, & St. John's Cathedral – Edgar Allan Poe: Rhode Island
• “Ulalume” & The American Whig Review – Edgar Allan Poe
• The Franklin Lyceum – Edgar Allan Poe: Rhode Island
• Sarah Helen and Susan Anna Residence, 140 Power Street – Edgar Allan Poe
• Swan Point Cemetery – Edgar Allan Poe
• “Ultima Thule” – Edgar Allan Poe
• Sarah Helen Whitman – Edgar Allan Poe
• The (Still) Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe | History | Smithsonian Magazine
• Poe Biography - The Poe Museum
• Edgar Allan Poe & Sarah Helen Whitman | curio
• Edgar Allan Poe and His Tumultuous Romances (US National Park Service)
• Edgar Allan Poe on Valentine's Day
• Poe, Lynch, and the Literary Salon Scene
• Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore - Works - Letters - SH Whitman to EA Poe (early August 1848)
• Works - Letters - EA Poe to SH Whitman (September 5, 1848)
• Works - Letters - SH Whitman to EA Poe (September 27-29, 1848)
• The Last Letters of Edgar Allan Poe to Sarah Helen Whitman
• Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore - Works - Letters - EA Poe to SH Whitman (November 24, 1848)
• Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore - People - Mrs. Frances Sargent Osgood
• The Life and Addictions of Edgar Allan Poe
• Death of Edgar Allan Poe - Wikipedia
• Edgar Allan Poe - Wikipedia

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