"Edgar Poe and his Critics," Sarah Helen Whitman. Sarah Helen Whitman was a poet, essayist and transcendentalist (1803-1878).

"Poems," Sarah Helen Whitman. Sarah Helen Whitman was a poet, essayist and transendentalist (1803-1878).

This is the definitive book on Edgar Allan Poe's doomed romance with Providence poet Sarah Helen Whitman, and the first time her poetry has been available in print since 1916. This book contains the poems both poets wrote to and about one another, and the best work they might have read to one another during their courtship. The essay traces Poe's 28 days in Providence in detail, as well as the genealogy and family history of Mrs. Whitman. Additionally, an appreciation of Sarah Helen Whitman's highly romantic poetry helps to place her in the pantheon of American women poets where she belongs....