Since its opening in 1922, the Poe Museum of Richmond, Virginia has been the faithful custodian of Edgar Allan Poe's life and legacy. From Poe's childhood bed, to manuscripts of his famous tales, to a lock of his own hair, the Poe Museum's has the world's largest collection of Edgar Allan Poe's personal items and memorabilia.
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was America's first professional writer, the inventor of the detective story, and the Master of the Macabre. With stories and poems like "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Masque of the Red Death," "The Raven," and "Annabel Lee" Edgar Allan Poe's work continues to haunt us forevermore...
I just want to brag that I called Melling being a good Poe back in 2018 when he was in 'The Ballad of Buster Scruggs'. I agree that he overplayed the accent a bit, but otherwise he was every bit as great as Poe as I'd hoped. Would love to see him return in a proper biopic or something playing an older, more recognizable Poe.
That's a good idea. With all the screenplays people have written for Poe biopics over the years, maybe one of them will actually get produced. I would like to see Daniel Stashower's The Beautiful Cigar Girl, which I have heard has been optioned. Melling would be a good choice if it finally happens.
Poe does not have the mustache in Samuel Osgood's 1845 oil portrait of Poe or in John McDougall's 1846 watercolor portrait of him. The first image of Poe is the Daly daguerreotype taken in the spring or summer of 1847. The subsequent daguerreotypes show the mustache. This includes the Traylor daguerreotype taken about two weeks before he died.
Yes, we have Poe's manuscripts for his poem "To Helen" and his unfinished poem "Spiritual Song." We also have manuscripts for some of his prose works and some of his letters.
Great episode Chris! I love imagining Poe sending these encrypted messages - probably chuckling to himself, knowing how difficult it would be 😊 I think he would love knowing ot took years for these to be decoded, and that he had the last laugh!!
Thanks for watching. It would be just like Poe to make everyone wait over a century trying to crack his code only to find out it was just a joke. He might get a good laugh out of that.
do you know anything about the painting that the bronx county historical society briefly feature in this video from 2015 right around the 10 minute mark? i really want to know more and if the painting could be a real poe adjacent artifact. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-kWKJWG6Ylmk.html
When I was volunteering at the museum at least a decade ago, I was working in the office on the second floor of the "Poe childhood home" building by myself. There is a small window up there, and a bird kept flying up and knocking on it. To the point it was distracting. It did this for at least several hours, and I never understood what it wanted. It wasn't a raven, though!
I am a 1st cousin 4× removed. My grandmother was Martha Fern Poe and her father was Dewitt Talmadge Poe. When it is traced back farther It comes to George Poe who was one of David Poe Sr. Sons. I remember being 5 and my grandmother putting one of Edgar's books in my hands and telling me how I was related to him. Very strange indeed but from all the research I've done it seems to be the case. Interestingly enough I also share the same birthday Jan 19th. I was born in 1980 and he in 1809.
I loved this Chris! So interesting to hear about the special meaning behind the beautiful elements of the garden. So cool to that you have bricks and elements from buildings so vital to Poe's story and life❤❤
I love the garden. It's so wonderful to walk through. The last time I was there I saw the leaves from the live oak and didn't know they resembled bay leaves so much.
I mean, why not a garden? Edgar Poe was a full human being, and a prolific writer. He wrote TONS of comedies, gave birth to the detective genre, was certainly not allergic to romance -- and was a _scathing_ (and hilarious! 🤣) literary critic! Above all else, he professed a love of _beauty._ So, I'd think a garden suits him just fine 😄 🖖🏾✨ Thank you for providing us with this tour of it!
wow this is very thought provoking. we need to get to the bottom of this. we were never taught of this in the history books. let alone in school or college.
There is a theory that Poe died of meningitis or a similar disease. Most of the theories concerning Poe's death hinge on rather involved historical explanations or rely on some sort of inexplicable violence. Given Poe's poverty, various bouts with previous illness, and close proximity with a very serious disease, Tuberculosis, I would incline to argue for a serious illness as the cause of death. Disease killed more people than anything else during Poe's Era.
Poe was certainly exposed to TB for most of his life, and he likely had it, even if he was asymptomatic until the end. One of the best theories is that he had tuberculosis meningitis.
I haven't had any troubles on this video myself, but I know on some old videos it seems like the video audio was set to stereo but only coming through one channel. Haven't had any problems in a while though so I assumed he fixed it.
@@ZacPensol well, it isn't my phone, because everything else has come through well. Upsetting, too, because the topic is so interesting, but halfway through, I had to give up on it.
15:30 "put him back with the other Poe pieces and put him in the new Poe box" is by far the most hilarious sting of words ive ever seen used to describe someones *skull falling out of its coffin* and being placed back in with the rest of the remains in a new coffin 😂
Well, I think Science today is at the very high level and it could be done some research on Poe's reamins. I am sure scientists would find some information about bus health or whatever and we could get closer of what happen to him. I also read that the theory about this fallen skull of Poe that is not the truth and it was not a tummor. I can't remember where it was but it was Poe-related page. Greetings from Slovakia!💀
Thanks for the feedback from Slovakia. Scientists are coming up with more and better ways to test hair and DNA. There is still enough of Poe's hair available for testing if someone wants to design a study and find funding for the tests. If the sexton did pick up Poe's skull, it is possible he heard something else, like a piece of bone or a clump of dirt. The newspaper accounts of Poe's remains falling out of the coffin do not mention anybody picking up the skull. That comes from a later account, so, like so many stories about Poe, it may or may not have happened.
Of course, our poor Eddie dies a mysterious death-as a Poe devotee since my youth, I’m still very saddened each time I hear these torturous scenarios-such tragedy. You’ve provided many interesting details which are new to me-thx so much!
Thanks for the comment. Poe was writing some of his best poetry ("Annabel Lee," "The Bells," and "A Dream Within a Dream") when he met his untimely demise. Even though things were finally starting to go his way, Poe told people that his end was near. He seemed to know something was killing him.
I watch every episode and I love this channel!!! Wow, the hypothesis of a brain tumor is an interesting one- i never heard the story about the sextant of the cemetery shaking Poe's skull and hearing something rattling!😮 Its a fascinating theory and bears thinking about- might explain the hallucinations and odd behavior.
Thanks for watching. Maybe additional evidence or new ways of testing Poe's hair or DNA will help us confirm or rule out that hypothesis some day soon. You never know what the researchers will uncover next.
Well, thank you for these abondant and precise informations ! I’ll invent a theory : - three months before, he was depressed and he took laudanum. - and on his way to Baltimore, he was depressed again and took laudanum again. (of course, it might only work if laudanum gives hallucinations). First time I hear about the cholera outbreak, about the cooping of many persons at a time, and, well, about the bells in his cranium !
Thanks for the feedback. The time we know Poe took laudanum was during a failed suicide attempt the year before his death. He wrote about it in a letter to Annie Richmond, and I think the poem "For Annie" might also describe that experience. He probably only survived because he threw up the laudanum, so, if he did try that again, it very well could have killed him. It does, however, seem he would have left a note.
