Edgar did very well in the military, and arose to the stature of sergeant in two years time. ... In 1833 and 1834, Poe wrote two short stories, in which he would later rewrite. ... In 1845, Edgar moved back to New York City and lived in a cottage in Fordham. ... James Russell Lowell wrote an essay on Edgar, and it appeared in Graham's Magazine. ... Edgar worked hard, contributing reviews, essays, revisions, and a few stories. ...

• Word Count: 1363
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

In this essay I will examine how Poe utilizes plot elements, style, narration, setting, theme, symbolization, and literary devices in order to create such a horrific and suspenseful masterpiece. ... In its surface were two iron staples, distant from each other about two feet, horizontally. ... The story begins around dusk, one evening during the carnival season in an Italian city. ... "The Cask of Amontillado" is a powerful tale of revenge. Montresor, the sinister narrator of this tale, pledges revenge upon Fortunato for an insult. ...

• Word Count: 2072
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

His mother, Elizabeth Arnold Poe, had been widowed at eighteen, and two years after his birth she died of tuberculosis at the age of twenty-four. ... In the first of the poem's three stanzas, Poe compares Helen's beauty to the ships of Nicea, a city near the Sea of Marmara. ... He stated his age as twenty-two, although he was just eighteen. In his two years in the Army, he rose to be regimental sergeant major. ... For the next two years he turned to free-lance writing. ...

• Word Count: 3026
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

The book records Thoreau's experiences in a hand-built cabin, where he spent two years in partial seclusion, at Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts. ... Oliver Wendell Holmes- Initially known in the Boston area for his cultured, witty verse, the American physician and writer gained wider popularity with the publication of his essays in 1858. ... His "The Gold Bug" (1843) tells the tale of a search for buried treasure on a South Carolina island lV. ... In 1899 Robinson moved to New York City, where his volume Captain Craig and Other Poems (1902) attracted little interest. ...

• Word Count: 1931
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School