Poe
Edgar Allan, 1809–49, U.S. poet, short-story writer, and critic.
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Other definitions for POE (2 of 2)
port of embarkation.
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How to use Poe in a sentence
Lewis Carroll, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Edgar Allan Poe, and Vincent van Gogh all likely experienced the condition.
The Seizure Medication That Turns You Into a Poet | Cat Ferguson | September 12, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST“Madam Speaker, this is America; it is not Burger King,” Poe said.
The Democrats Have Found a New Boogeyman, and It’s Burger King | Tim Mak | August 26, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST“Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear,” wrote Edgar Allan Poe.
How to Tell When a Scientific Study Is Total B.S. | Russell Saunders | August 22, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST“The designation which we fight for all the time is a hollow designation because there is no backup,” Poe told The Daily Beast.
“There has been not a dime of money frozen or seized from the Haqqani network,” said Poe.
With such a faculty Balzac could not be, like Edgar Poe, merely a narrator of nightmares.
Repertory Of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A -- Z | Anatole Cerfberr and Jules Franois ChristophePoe spent the rest of his life combatting mental sickness, poverty and loneliness.
Hallowed Heritage: The Life of Virginia | Dorothy M. TorpeyAfter the Poe will come two volumes of mine, one of critical articles and the other of poems.
Charles Baudelaire, His Life | Thophile GautierYou, who love to amuse yourself in all depths, will you not make an excursion into the depths of Edgar Poe?
Charles Baudelaire, His Life | Thophile GautierIs Usher described at all when Poe says, “I gazed upon him with a feeling half of pity, half of awe”?
English: Composition and Literature | W. F. (William Franklin) Webster
British Dictionary definitions for Poe (1 of 2)
/ (pəʊ) /
Edgar Allan. 1809–49, US short-story writer, poet, and critic. Most of his short stories, such as The Fall of the House of Usher (1839) and the Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque (1840), are about death, decay, and madness. The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841) is regarded as the first modern detective story
British Dictionary definitions for POE (2 of 2)
military port of embarkation
port of entry
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