Word: poe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Space Operas & Utopia. The four founding fathers of "science fiction" are generally acknowledged to be Edgar Allan Poe, Jules Verne, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and H. G. Wells. In the U.S., Will F. Jenkins, a 27-year veteran, who also writes under the pen name of Murray Leinster, is regarded as the dean of writers in the field. Best of the lot, according to expert editors, are Robert Heinlein and A. E. van Vogt...
...stature in the slightest; he grows more impressive, in his unassuming serenity, as more is known about him. He is as eloquent as Herman Melville but without Melville's frequent posturing and bombast, as civilized as Henry James but without James's mannerisms, as imaginative as Poe but without Poe's melodrama, as just as Hawthorne at his best. His phrases, like Shakespeare's, have become part of the language...
...book of poems published in 1947, is an Amherst College graduate who received his A.M. from Harvard in 1947. One of his poems. "The Puritan," appeared in the latest issue of the Advocate. He will give a course here next year, English 271, on the writings of Edgar Allan Poe...
Cecil M. Bowra, Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, will discuss the work of Edgar Allan Poe in the second of a series of lectures on "The Romantic Imagination" at 8 p. m. tonight in New Lecture Hall...
Actors' Studio (Sun. 8:30 p.m., ABC-TV). Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart...