Edgar Allan Poe

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# Clue Answer As Given Value Round Category Air Date Show
Usher-ed in "The Haunted Palace"; fell for Whitman (Sarah, not Walt); bit of a drinking problem Poe $800 DJ WHO'S THAT POET? 2023-07-17 #8916
"Bells" (interspersed more than 60 times within the poem) (Edgar Allan) Poe $800 DJ THE MAN, THE POETRY 2020-09-22 #8242
"Lenore 'hath gone before', with hope, that flew beside, leaving thee wild for the dear child that should have been thy bride" (Edgar Allan) Poe $1,600 DJ DEAD POETS 2015-01-20 #6987
"To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells from the bells, bells, bells, bells" (He added 3 more bells there) Poe $800 J POETRY & THEE 2014-11-04 #6932
"'Tis some visitor,' I muttered, 'tapping at my chamber door--only this, and nothing more'" (Edgar Allan) Poe $400 DJ NAME THE POET 2013-01-25 #6530
Shortly after becoming engaged to Sarah Shelton, he fell ill in a Baltimore tavern & died 4 days later on October 7, 1849 (Edgar Allan) Poe $600 J AMERICAN POETS 2011-12-12 #6266
Okay, we've been savin' / His poem, "The Raven" / But to go even deeper / Check out "The Sleeper" (Edgar Allan) Poe $200 J ROTTEN POETRY ABOUT GOOD POETS 2009-02-04 #5623
He wrote, "An echo murmured back the word, 'Lenore!'--merely this and nothing more" Edgar Allan Poe $600 J POETRY 2008-11-27 #5574
His 1847 poem "Ulalume" mentions "The ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir" (he really liked ghoulish stuff) (Edgar Allan) Poe $2,000 DJ POETS & POETRY 2008-11-21 #5570
About the lovely Lenore, he wrote, "Wretches! Ye loved her for her wealth and hated her for her pride" (Edgar Allan) Poe $800 DJ AMERICAN POETS & POETRY 2007-03-02 #5180
His "Ulalume" rhymes "sober" with "lonesome October" Edgar Allan Poe $1,000 J POETRY 2004-11-15 #4646
In May 1827 he enlisted in the U.S. Army as "Edgar A. Perry" Edgar Allan Poe $400 DJ AMERICAN POETS 2004-01-15 #4459
He wrote, "Hear the loud alarum bells--brazen bells! What a tale of terror, now their turbulency tells!" Edgar Allan Poe $200 DJ HOW POETIC! 1999-11-08 #3491
Late in his life, he was involved with at least 3 women but wedding bells tolled "Nevermore" Edgar Allan Poe $200 DJ POETIC LICENSE 1998-10-26 #3251
In 1827 he enlisted in the Army under the pseudonym Edgar A. Perry Edgar Allan Poe $200 DJ POET-POURRI 1998-05-12 #3167
In his poems "Lenore" & "The Raven", young men lament the deaths of their beloveds (Edgar Allan) Poe $200 DJ POETRY 1995-09-04 #2526
In 1849 his poems "The Bells" & "Annabel Lee" were published Edgar Allan Poe $200 DJ POETS & POETRY 1995-07-03 #2511
It's thought that "Annabel Lee" was a tribute to his deceased wife Edgar Allan Poe $200 DJ POETS & POETRY 1995-04-21 #2460
Collier's' Ency. claims this author of "The Bells" was "a great swimmer" & "did not write while drunk" Edgar Allan Poe $200 J POETS 1994-07-12 #2287
Soon after his 1809 birth, his parents died & he was taken to the Richmond, Va. home of Mr. & Mrs. John Allan Edgar Allan Poe DD $1,500 DJ POETS 1994-04-13 #2223
Poet & mystery author whose 1849 poem "To My Mother" is a tribute to the mother of his late child bride Edgar Allan Poe $1,000 DJ POETS & POETRY 1993-11-01 #2106
His last volume of poetry, "The Raven and other Poems", was published in 1845 Edgar Allan Poe $200 DJ POETS & POETRY 1993-06-28 #2046
This American poet wrote several versions of his lament "Lenore" (Edgar Allan) Poe $200 DJ POETRY 1993-02-05 #1945
This poet's novella "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym" inspired Melville's "Moby Dick" (Edgar Allan) Poe $600 DJ POETS 1991-11-29 #1670
This poet's "MS. Found in a Bottle" won a Baltimore short story contest in 1833 Edgar Allan Poe $800 DJ POETS 1990-02-05 #1256
He had already published "Tamerlane & Other Poems" when he was appointed to West Point Edgar Allan Poe $1,000 DJ POETS' CORNER 1987-10-08 #709
Expression "The glory that was Greece & the grandeur that was Rome" is by this gloomy poet Edgar Allan Poe $1,000 DJ AMERICAN POETRY 1985-09-17 #267
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