Edgar Allan Poe's NYC

All Of It with Alison Stewart | Oct 30, 2020

Edgar Allan Poe published his spooky classic, "The Raven,” while living at Brennan Farm, located approximately where West Eighty-Fourth Street and Broadway intersect today. Scott Peeples, professor of English at the College of Charleston and author of the book, The Man of the Crowd: Edgar Allan Poe and the City, joins us to discuss how Poe’s writings were shaped by the cities in which he resided.



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