Episode Description:

While he never lived in Rhode Island, Edgar Allan Poe famously spent time here at the end of his life. He courted a Providence writer, Sarah Helen Whitman, and spent time at her East Side home, Swan Point Cemetery and the Athenaeum.

Episode Source Material:

  • About… – Edgar Allan Poe: Rhode Island
  • Sarah Helen Whitman, Providence Poet Who Dumped Edgar Allan Poe - New England Historical Society
  • Sarah Helen Whitman, Providence Poet Who Dumped Edgar Allan Poe - New England Historical Society
  • Sarah Helen Whitman - Wikipedia
  • Sarah Helen Whitman | Poetry Foundation
  • Sarah Helen Whitman | Biography, Books, & Facts | Britannica
  • Ulalume - Wikipedia
  • Poe & Whitman
  • Benefit Street: Sarah Helen Whitman Residence, Rose Garden, & St. John's Cathedral – Edgar Allan Poe: Rhode Island
  • “Ulalume” & The American Whig Review – Edgar Allan Poe
  • The Franklin Lyceum – Edgar Allan Poe: Rhode Island
  • Sarah Helen and Susan Anna Residence, 140 Power Street – Edgar Allan Poe
  • Swan Point Cemetery – Edgar Allan Poe
  • “Ultima Thule” – Edgar Allan Poe
  • Sarah Helen Whitman – Edgar Allan Poe
  • The (Still) Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe | History | Smithsonian Magazine
  • Poe Biography - The Poe Museum
  • Edgar Allan Poe & Sarah Helen Whitman | curio
  • Edgar Allan Poe and His Tumultuous Romances (US National Park Service)
  • Edgar Allan Poe on Valentine's Day
  • Poe, Lynch, and the Literary Salon Scene
  • Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore - Works - Letters - SH Whitman to EA Poe (early August 1848)
  • Works - Letters - EA Poe to SH Whitman (September 5, 1848)
  • Works - Letters - SH Whitman to EA Poe (September 27-29, 1848)
  • The Last Letters of Edgar Allan Poe to Sarah Helen Whitman
  • Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore - Works - Letters - EA Poe to SH Whitman (November 24, 1848)
  • Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore - People - Mrs. Frances Sargent Osgood
  • The Life and Addictions of Edgar Allan Poe
  • Death of Edgar Allan Poe - Wikipedia
  • Edgar Allan Poe - Wikipedia

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