Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore: Poe's Poems: Imitation

Try to guess the title of the Edgar Allan Poe work when you are given the first line of the poem! Fifteen mostly multiple-choice questions will have you racking your brain to recall the opening words of some not-so-well-known pieces. See...

The Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore has created one of the more thorough websites on Poe. It presents many essays on his life and various aspects of his works, as well as the texts of most of Poe's writings, including his poetry,...

Author's are often influenced by events in their own lives as they write. Use Edgar Allan Poe's poems "Ulalume" and "Annabel Lee" to take a look at how the death of Poe's wife affected his poetry. Ask students to discuss and compare the...

Read about the theories and ideas associated with Edgar Allan Poe's mysterious death, the cause of which, according to biographers, has never been pinpointed. This article overviews the problems, such as alcoholism and other health...

If your class has finish reading Edgar Allan Poe's "Cask of Amontillado" here's a great post-reading worksheet. Whether used as a reading assessment, as the basis of group discussion, or for whole class response, the fact-based,...

High schoolers respond to 15 questions about short stories by Edgar Allan Poe and his works. Using the Cliffs Notes website they may also link to an online interactive quiz on the stories at the bottom of the page.

This site, part of the E. A. Poe Society of Baltimore, includes links to more than fifty different sites with literary criticism by and about Edgar Allan Poe.

Read Poe's poem "An Enigma" as it was published in an 1850 collection, "The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe."

Links to various versions and extracts of Poe's "Al Aaraaf," with helpful notes about its publishing history and context.

Read Edgar Allan Poe's famous tale "The Cask of Amontillado." Includes brief summaries of the characters and the setting.