Celebrate Poe

Feb 02 2025 321 ep. 28 mins 36
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This podcast is a deep dive into the life, times. works. and influences of Edgar Allan Poe - "America's Shakespeare." Mr. Poe comes to life in this weekly podcast!

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Translating Poe

Feb 02 2025 31 mins  
Send us a text Welcome to Celebrate Poe - Episode 325 - Translating Poe Before Celebrate Poe goes any further, I want to admit that I am going back and dealing with some of the influences of Poe - emphasizing that they were part of Gothic literature or writing that employs dark and picturesque scenery, startling and melodramatic narrative devices, and an overall atmosphere of exoti

DeQuincy, Baudelaire, and Poe - Part Three

Jan 30 2025 28 mins  
Send us a textWelcome to Celebrate Poe - Episode 321 - DeQuincy, Baudelaire, and Poe - Part Three)I hope you listened to the previous episode that deals with Thomas De Quincy and his 1821 autobiographical work "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater.But before we go any further, I wan to try and clear something up. An opium-eater is not actually someone who eats opium, but rather a

Answer to Listener

Jan 28 2025 34 mins  
Send us a textWelcome to Celebrate Poe - my name is George Bartley and this is episode 321 - Answer to ListenerThe intro music was Come Rest in This Bosom - said to be Edgar Poe’s favorite song. I’d like to start with a whooper of an apology - last month - yes, last month - I got a kind message with my podcast episode on my iPhone - I was so elated that I did an entire episode

DeQuincy, Baudelaire, and Poe - Part Two

Jan 27 2025 33 mins  
Send us a textWelcome to Celebrate Poe - Episode 320 - DeQuincy, Baudelaire, and Poe - Part TwoWhen I started this podcast, my plans are to delve more into Charles Baudelaire, but I ran into something that I did not expect. Oh sure, there was his great collection known as Flowers of Evil and his classic and highly influential translation of Poe’s works. And I began reading a book

Intolerable Leaders

Jan 23 2025 28 mins  
Send us a textWelcome to Celebrate Poe - episode 319 - Intolerable LeadersThis should be episode 319 - Baudelaire, De Quincey, and Poe - Part Two. But while I was looking through some past transcripts on my web site, I ran across one that addressed the invasion of the Capital in Washington. It was an issue that I strongly felt needed to be addressed 4 years ago when it happened, an

Baudelaire, De Quincey, and Poe, Part One

Jan 21 2025 28 mins  
Send us a textWelcome to Celebrate Poe - this is episode 318 - DeQuincy, Baudelaire, and Poe - Part OneRecently, I ran across a book about Charles Baudelaire called A Portrait of the Artist as a Drug Addict. There is no question about it - According to the author - Charles Baudelaire, the translator of Edgar Allan Poe's works, was a heavy user of opium. Baudelaire wrote extensively

Flowers of Evil

Jan 16 2025 21 mins  
Send us a text Welcome to Celebrate Poe - Episode 317 - Flowers of Evil Today I want to look at some of Baudelaire’s masterpiece - Les Fleurs du Mal - or The Flowers of Evil. First published in 1857, the poems were extremely controversial upon publication, with six of its poems censored due to their immorality. Now it is now considered a major work of French poetry. The poems in

From Ecstasy to Anguish

Jan 13 2025 30 mins  
Send us a textWelcome to Celebrate Poe - Episode 316 - From Ecstasy to AnguishMany years ago, when I was working at the Poe Museum in Richmond, I remember the brilliant curator, Chris Semptner talking about a French writer who was greatly influenced by Poe and translated Poe’s works into French. Chris seemed to be very excited at the connection, but to be honest, I forgot the wri

Bob Dylan and Poe

Jan 10 2025 25 mins  
Send us a textI guess you could say I unconsciously (or maybe even consciously) devoted at least 11 or 12 of the previous episodes reading the complete version of the original The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - because the movie Wicked is currently popular. Then I considered the movie A Complete Unknown about the great Bob Dylan. But the problem was that I didn’t think there was ANY co

Salad Days, Beatles, Taylor Swift, and Poe

Jan 06 2025 25 mins  
Send us a text Welcome to Episode 318 - Salad Days, the Beatles, Taylor Swift, and Poe. And yes, this podcast has returned to the subject of Edgar Allan Poe - and I know you will enjoy the ride as this podcast delves deeper into the life and works of America’s Shakespeare. I hope you had a great 2024, and have an even better 2025. This year, one of my New Year’s Resolutions (in