About the Poe Perplex
The Poe Perplex has its origins in a class offered at the U. S. Naval Academy
in the spring of 1996. Students in two sections of an English major's seminar
on Poe created many of the materials for use in class. In usual seminar
fashion, the students did the research and talked about the works of Poe.
During the semester each student dealt with three or four of Poe's works
and created information sheets about those works. In addition, each student
did a limited research paper.
The information sheets can be accessed here by looking at the commentary
on poems
and on tales
. The research papers are found, for the most part in the section titled
Poe's
Life, Poe's Wife and Poe's Erstwhile Friends.
COURSE MATERIALS
The course
syllabus and the aims
of the course in which the Poe materials were created are available
here.