Emily, Usher, and American Gothic perspectives on mortality
Olga Reykhart Liam Butchart Stony Brook, New York, United States 1894-1895 Illustration by Aubrey Beardsley of the short story “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe. Accessed via Wikimedia. In an editorial for Medical Humanities, Gillie Bolton notes that death is a common theme in literature and also in medicine. […]
“Something monomanical”: Obsession and the unity of effect
Jack Rosser Herefordshire, England, United Kingdom A portrait of Poe in 1848, not long prior to his passing in 1849. The concept of monomania first gathered popularity in France at the beginning of the nineteenth century; the term “referred to a type of mental disorder in which a person would have fixed, and often […]
Edgar Allan Poe – a tormented literary genius
Donna J. A. Olson Whitelaw, Alberta Edgar Allan Poe, 1809-1849 A man attempts to hide from his sins and ultimately from himself. A murderer takes an old man’s life and hides the body under the floorboards. But he cannot silence his guilt, so he keeps on hearing the dead man’s heart in his room. This […]
A poem about plagiarism
Sergei Jargin Moscow, Russia (after Edgar Allan Poe) Not Pushkin am I, neither Poe, So great is not my fame. I am a humble Russian poet, S. Jargin is my name. To plagiarize is worse than steal We love the Copyright, And by quotations we reveal The source from which we write. Great […]