Arthur Johnson Memorial Library

Allen, Hervey

Israfel The Life and Times of Edgar Allan Poe Hervey Allen - New York Farrar & Rinehart, Inc. 1934 - xix, 748 p.

Includes Index




A dramatic prologue --
The two orphans --
Lady Bountiful claims Israfel --
The little angel tries his wings --
Israfel in Albion --
Israfel meets Helen --
Israfel salutes the marquis --
Elmira and the enchanted garden --
Israfel in cap and gown --
Alias Henri Le Rennet --
Israfel in Carolina --
Cold marble --
The West Point interlude --
The weary, wayworn wanderer --
The mysterious years --
Bottled fame --
The valley of the many-colored grass --
Carmine Street --
Grotesques and arabesques --
High tide --
Spring Garden Street --
The raven and his shadow --
The literati and the Fordham pastoral --
The universe and Mrs. Shew --
A handkerchief soaked in ether --
Lenoire and the edge of the world --
An appeal to higher authority --
Notes on Poe's ancestry --
Galt correspondence, etc. --
Wills of William Galt and John Allan --
Poe's brother --
First marriage of Poe and Virginia Clemm --
History of Poe's friend, F.W. Thomas --
Letters from the University of Virginia in 1825 and 1826 --
Letters from Maria Clemm and Dr. J.J. Moran --
Poe-Neal correspondence and politian.


Poe, Edgar Allan 1809-1849


Authors, American -- Biography--19th century

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