History of Gothic Literature
The person who is often referred to as "The Father of Gothic Literature"
Who is Horace Walpole?
This city is where Edgar Allan Poe was born.
What is Boston?
This is an example of a melancholic poem
What is The Raven?
Poe was the editor of Graham's Magazine in this US city
What is Philadelphia?
Poe struggled with these after his wife died
What are depression and alcoholism?
This person wrote, "The Monk," in 1796.
Who is Matthew Lewis?
After his parents died, the Allan family adopted him who resided in this city
What is Richmond?
The speaker of this poem kills an innocent man because of his "evil eye"
What is The Tell-Tale Heart?
In New York, Poe was an editor for this
What is The Broadway Journal?
Poe's wife died in 1847 from this
What is tuberculosis?
Edgar Allan Poe's work can be categorized as this style of gothic literature.
What is New American Gothic?
After moving back to Virginia to be with his ill mother from England, Poe attended this college.
What is the University of Virginia?
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The speaker of the poem reminisces over his or her diseased wife
What is The Raven?
Poe edited The Southern Literary Messenger in 1835 in this city
What is Richmond?
Poe died in Baltimore, Maryland in 1849 from this
What is “acute congestion of the brain"?
Poe added this to modernize gothic literature.
What is detective fiction?
Poe went by this pseudonym to enlist in the US Army
Who is Edgar Allan Perry?
Madeline passes away in this short story
What is "The Fall of the House of Usher"?
Poe was the editor for Burton's Magazine during these years
What is 1837 to 1840?
Poe's biological parents died before Poe was this age
What is the age of three?
The year in which gothic literature was created.
What is 1764?
Poe married this young lady in 1836
Who is Virginia Clemm?
This is the type of verse Poe uses in most of his poems
What is formal verse?
Poe published this poem while he was an editor of Graham's Magazine
What is The Tell-Tale Heart?
Poe had this type of problem through this childhood
What is a behavioral problem?