Edgar Allan Poe: The Fever Called Living (Icons) (19 page)

See also specific titles

sidekicks,
51
,
59

Simms, William Gilmore,
70
,
77
–
78

“The Sleeper” (Poe),
23

Snodgrass, Joseph,
97
–
98
,
105

songwriting,
64
–
65

Sons of Temperance,
96

South Pole,
37

Southern Literary Messenger
,
27
–
35
,
36
,
89

The Sphinx of the Ice Fields
(Verne),
104

Stannard, Jane,
8

storytelling.
See also
themes

backward,
49
,
59
,
103

writing style,
17
,
24
–
25
,
34
,
49
–
50
,
66

The Stylus
,
53
,
54
,
89
,
93
–
94

suicide, Poe’s attempt,
90
,
95

The Sun
,
63
–
64

Tales
(Poe),
70

Tales of the Folio Club
(Poe),
26
,
35

Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque
(Poe),
44

“Tamerlane” (Poe),
17
–
18

Tamerlane and Other Poems
(Poe),
15
–
18
,
22

“The Tell-Tale Heart” (Poe),
53
,
57

temperance,
46
,
55
,
96

theater.
See
acting

themes

death,
23
,
41
,
43
,
66
,
81
–
82
,
98

decryption,
58

grief,
27
–
28
,
66
,
81
–
83

horror satire,
24
–
25
,
27
–
28

identity,
41
,
89

insanity,
53
,
66
,
71
,
78

love lost,
16
–
18
,
30
–
31
,
66
,
81
–
82

ratiocination,
49
,
59
,
103

revenge,
78
,
93

South Pole,
37

youth lost,
16
–
18

Thespian Society,
9

Thomas, Frederick W.,
54

Thompson, John,
89

Thrale, Hester,
111

“To Annie” (Poe),
98

The Toaster,
1

treasure hunts,
56
–
57
,
62
–
63

Twice-Told Tales
(Hawthorne),
35

“Ulalume” (Poe),
81
–
82

“Ultima Thule” (photo),
90

Unity,
87
,
89

“unity of effect,”
66
,
76
–
77

universe,
84
–
87
,
89

University of Virginia (UVA),
10
–
13

“Usher” (Poe),
42
–
43

Valdemar, M. (fictional),
73

Verne, Jules,
104

The Victoria
(airship),
63

Vidocq, Eugene Francois,
48
–
49

W.H.P., Henry Poe as,
20
,
110
–
2

Walker, W.,
97

Wallace, William Ross,
66

Webster, Noah,
36

Wertenbaker, William,
12
–
13

West Point,
22
–
23

White, Thomas W.,
27
–
29

Whitman, Sarah Helen,
91
–
92

Whitman, Walt,
73
,
106

Wiley & Putnam,
70
,
71

“William Wilson” (Poe),
42
–
43

Willis, Nathaniel Parker,
21
,
67
,
69
,
77

Wilmer, Lambert,
33

Wise, John,
63

works.
See also
novels
;
poetry
;
short stories
;
and specific titles

collected,
70
,
99
–
100

detective,
48
–
51
,
58
–
60

first masterpiece,
40
–
41

first novel,
36
–
38

first poetry book,
8
,
15
–
18

first short story,
20
–
21

least known,
31
,
46

magazine-published,
20
–
22
,
24
–
31
,
42
–
46
,
73
,
76
–
79

mastery of,
1
,
40

metaphysical,
83
,
84
–
90

newspaper-published,
56
–
57
,
63
–
64
,
92
–
93

rejected,
21
,
27
,
31
,
35
,
53

science fiction,
38
,
73
,
104

songwriting,
64
–
65

The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe
(Griswold),
100
–
102

writing style,
17
,
24
–
25
,
34
,
49
–
50
,
66

Wyatt, Thomas,
41

Yankee,
21

youth, theme of lost,
16
–
18

Table of Contents

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication Page

Contents

1 The Child of Fortune

2 Manuscript Found in a Bottle

3 The Glorious Prospect

4 The Shakespeare of America

5 Nevermore

Notes

Selected Further Reading

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Index