Welcome to Celebrate Poe - episode 395 - Finding a Home, Part OneWelcome back Walt. That's hard for me to get used to. I'd rather call you Mr. Whitman out of respect, but if you prefer the familiar Walt understand.Thank you ...

Welcome to Celebrate Poe - where - and who knows - maybe next month is also about Walt Whitman. This is episode 394 - Simplicity. In the past few episodes, this podcast has dealt with some very complex issues such as slavery, bu...

Welcome to Celebrate Whitman.  My name is George Bartley. This is episode 393 - Schoolteaching YearsWhen we left Walt in the previous episode, it seemed that his future career seemed set in the newspaper and printing trades - he sa...

Welcome to Celebrate Whitman.  My name is George Bartley, and this episode  392 I Sing The Body ElectricIn the previous episode, Celebrate Whitman dealt with the artist’s three months in New Orleans.  I had planned to tal...

Welcome to Celebrate Whitman - My name is George Bartley, and this is episode 391 Sojourn in the South.Greetings, Hello, Mr. Whitman.As a Youth, you worked in the printing industry in New York at the Eagle - a co...

Welcome to Celebrate poe  - Episode 390 - The Quaker PreacherToday I want to talk about Elias Hicks - a fascinating person who greatly influenced Walt Whitman.Greetings, Mr. Bartley.Hello, Mr. Whitman.   Now to...

Welcome to Celebrate Poe - My name is George Bartley, and this is episode 389 - What Did Whitman Read?Ghost sound   Hello, Mr. Whitman.Greetings, George.Mr. Whitman - I mean Walt - we have been talking ...

Welcome to Celebrate Poe - My name is George Bartley, and this is episode 388 - Celebrating WhitmanEdgar Allan Poe and Walt Whitman are, arguably, the greatest writers of the 19th century. So last year, I decided to start a new podca...

Welcome to celebrate Poe - episode 387 - what did Whitman sound like part two - in the previous episode, my big concern was coming up with a voice for the imaginary ghost of Walt Whitman that sounded definitely distinct from my natural voice...

Welcome to Celebrate Poe - Episode 386 - What Did Whitman Sound Like, 1In previous years, I have always done episodes about Walt Whitman simply by talking about his life. I did not use the format of me talking in the first person, an...

They took each other's hands. Each gave way to the impulse of his manly love, rarer, alas! but as tender and true as the love of woman, and they drew nearer and kissed each other.These words are from what is generally agreed to b...

Welcome to Celebrate Poe - Episode 384 Drake the Rake.After devoting an episode to Fitz Green Halleck, I thought I would devote an episode to - well, I don’t think lover is exactly the right word - but the person who was an extremely cl...

No name in the poetical world is more firmly established than that of Fitz-Green Halleck. (Ghost of Poe voice)Edgar Allan Poe wrote these words about Fitz green Halik for Graham’s Magazine in 1843. This episode will take a look at Halle...

Welcome to celebrate Poe this is episode 382 - Poe’s Pit and Pendulum.Ghost soundGlad you're there Mr. Poe.  You know in the previous episode we discussed the Raven. I would like to take a similar look at what I personally ...

Welcome to celebrate Poe - episode 381 - Edgar Poe Explains the Raven.Sorry if I gave you the wrong idea in the previous episode, but in this episode I want to delve more into Poe’s most famous work.GHOST SOUNDHello Mr. Poe<...

Welcome to Celebrate Poe - This is episode 380 (getting on up there) called More Supernatural Elements.Mr. Bartley: I have the Ghost of Mr. Poe here, and would like to dive right into Mr. Poe’ s  basic belief about his character’s ...

Welcome to Celebrate Poe - This is episode 379 - Supernatural ElementsWell How are you, Mr. Poe - and waiting to begin our conversationVery tolerable, Mr. Bartley -and most eager to share our thoughts.Mr Poe - It seems th...

Welcome to Celebrate Poe. Episode 378 -  Chilled Into StoneWell, in the previous episode Mr.Poe and I were engaged in a vigorous - don’t know if that is the right word for it - a vigorous discussion about what many consider to t...

Welcome to Celebrate Poe - Episode 377 - The House is a Vampire!My name is George Bartley, and for the rest of this series, I want to really look into a house that might not make it into Better Homes and Gardens - but is often classifie...

Mr. Bartley - plain fontMr. Poe - italics fontWelcome to Celebrate Poe - Episode 376 - A Crawling ShapeIn this episode, I would like to slightly change the subject to early Gothic novels such as The Castle of Otrano -...

Welcome to Celebrate Poe - Episode 375 - TormentedI have the ghost of Mr. Poe here - and I would like to ask Mr. Poe a very basic question that many readers of your work have - Mr. Poe - why did you use so much gruesome imagery in yo...

Welcome to Celebrate. Poe. Episode 374 - PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES where the ghost of Edgar Allan Poe and myself continue our discussion of how the writer surpassed the boundaries of Gothic literatureWe begin this episode by continuing ...

Welcome to Celebrate Poe - What Is Gothic - Episode 373 - the first of a extended series of podcasts - at least 10 podcasts under the general subject title of Poe and Gothic literature.This podcast episode begins with a few bars of&n...

Welcome to Celebrate Poe - Episode 372 - Dracula and DoublesBefore we go any further, I want to give you a basic definition of a double in literature or movies - first using some fairly recent examples.Now a "double" refers t...

Welcome to Episode 371 - The Black VampyreIn this episode I would like to delve into a literary work published by C. Wiley and Company on June 23, 1819 - The Black Vampyre.   Unfortunately, the story has a lot of archaic wo...