Now the most intellectually ambitious and the most critically significant of all Poe web sites. Must-see browsing for all serious students of Poe. Continually updated on multiple levels, this site contains serious discussions of Poe bibliography, the state of Poe's poetry in e-text form, and a dozen other significant issues. Don't miss the sections on Poe Topics and Poe Works, part of a larger project to put the version history of everything Poe wrote and as many actual texts as possible online. The text posted of "The Journal of Julius Rodman" is one of many electronic firsts at this site. For details see Edited Texts, below.

Deservedly the most widely used Poe site on the Internet. Although nominally a "fan site," well balanced, regularly updated, wide reaching, and deep in resources. For guidance, look at the library page (http://www.houseofusher.net/library.html with its huge collection of information concerning Poe, including artwork, audio, bibliographies, biographies, books, complete works, crticisms, cryptography, encyclopedias, essays, historical sites, multimedia, references, RSS, search, societies, timeline, translations, video, works. and more!

Features comments and intepretations by Christoffer Nilson ("Qrisse') and others to "decode" Poe, and to provide ample Poe trivia and useful links to other Poe sites. One feature is Martha Womack's Precisely Poe, which offers to answer questions about Poe.

Selected collections of critical, biographical, and other discussions of Poe. A few more IPL criticism links: Poe Essays | Poe Poems | Poe Tales [New addresses.]

Good starting site with texts from UM-St. Louis, formatted with HTML encoding and searchable with a grep-based engine. Some longer files, such the Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym and the composite entitled "Criticism" are also available as separate chapters or articles.

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B. Plain Electronic Texts:

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These e-texts are plain ASCII, without pagination or other formatting, and can be obtained via FTP, Gopher, or HTTP. Once downloaded, they are easily read or searched using text editing, word processing, or file utility software. But they have not been proofread or verified against printed texts. For a census of Poe e-texts at these sites, see Table I. Many plain texts are also available in CD-ROM format: see Section G.

Three reviews of Hawthorne tales: [No longer available]
http://eldred.ne.mediaone.net/nh/nhcrit.html

The Library of America text of three reviews by Poe:
(1) [No longer available] "Twice Told Tales," Graham's Magazine, April, 1842: http://eldred.ne.mediaone.net/nh/nhpoea.html;
(2) [No longer available] "Twice Told Tales," Graham's Magazine, May, 1842:
http://eldred.ne.mediaone.net/nh/nhpoe1.html; and
(3) [No longer available] "Tale-Writing" Godey's Lady's Book, Nov. 1847:
http://eldred.ne.mediaone.net/nh/nhpoe2.html.

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HTML and SGML encoding in these e-texts includes pagination, special handling of foreign accents and unusual characters, notes on printed sources, and detailed formatting information. Many of the texts in this group have been repaginated according the 1902 Harrison edition, but the texts themselves have not been verified as Harrison's. At Virginia, Michigan, and Oxford [No longer available], the Poe e-texts are integrated into corpora of some 600 works of Modern English literature, all of which may be investigated in a single search. Two of the sophisticated search engines to be found at these sites are PAT, designed for the Oxford English Dictionary to deal with historical variants in spelling, and Glimpse, a string search utility similar to UNIX grep. (For a census of Poe texts at these sites, see Table I.)

Scroll down under the letter P. Contains links to 30 Poe items at the Modern English Collection of the Electronic Text Center of the University of Virginia, including 29 texts from the Wiretap bulletin board or Oxford Text Archive (see above) and an upload of "Annabel Lee." The texts are stored locally as SGML but are converted to HTML upon request via the Web. A few of these texts have been repaginated according to the Harrison edition.

Local search index: Public Access Modern English Collection:
http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/lv4/modeng/www/modeng-pub.o2w