Celebrate Poe
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!
Episodes
268 episodes since 2020
Life, Liberty, and Happiness
Welcome to Celebrate Poe - My name is George Bartley, and this is episode 270 - Life, Liberty, and Happiness.The United States Declaration of Independence is an extremely important document in the history of the United States of Amer...
September 11, 2024
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28:37
Give Me Liberty
Welcome to Celebrate Poe - My name is George Bartley - and this is episode 269 - Give Me Liberty.Presidential elections in the United States only occur once every four years, and it could be argued that 2024 is the most important Pre...
September 06, 2024
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Season 3
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Episode 269
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23:19
Marrying Your Cousin
Welcome to Celebrate Poe - Episode 269 - Marrying Your CousinMany people believe that one of the most controversial subjects regarding Poe is the fact that he married his much younger cousin. Virginia Eliza Clemm. - I guess ...
August 30, 2024
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Season 3
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Episode 268
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27:47
Poe's First Story - Part 2
Welcome to Celebrate Poe - My name is George Bartley, and this is episode 266 - Poe’ First Story - Part TwoAfter all the background of the previous episode, I’d like to devote this episode to the actual story of Metzengerstein. ...
August 26, 2024
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Season 3
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Episode 267
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29:41
Poes' First Story - Part 1
Welcome to Celebrate Poe - My name is George Bartley, and this is episode 266 - Poe’ First Story - Part OneMost Poe scholars seem to believe that Poe’s first published story was Metzengerstein. Metzengerstein was published by The Phi...
August 22, 2024
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Season 3
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Episode 266
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26:06
Celebrate Poe's Most Important Episode Yet
Welcome to Celebrate Poe - this is Episode 265 - Celebrate Poe’s Most Important Episode Yet - This is the first episode of this podcast that is NOT Poecentric - an episode that a does not deal primarily with Poe or his writings - but a very ...
August 17, 2024
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Season 3
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Episode 265
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34:01
Baltimore, Part Two
Welcome to Celebrate Poe - My name is George Bartley, and this is episode 264 - Baltimore, Part Two - and let me emphasize that this and the previous episode are about the time that Poe spent in Baltimore after he left West Point - his final...
August 13, 2024
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Season 3
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Episode 264
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29:15
Baltimore, Part One
Welcome to Celebrate Poe - My name is George Bartley, and this is episode 263 - Baltimore, Part 1 - and let me emphasize that this and the following episode are about the time that Poe spent in Baltimore after he left West Point - not his fi...
August 10, 2024
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Season 3
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Episode 263
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28:24
John Allan's Death
MerchantWelcome to Celebrate Poe - Episode 262 - John Allan’s Death - In this episode I want to zero in on what I feel was one of the major influences on Poe’s work - John Allan. Although - to my knowledge - he never directly encourage...
August 06, 2024
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Season 3
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Episode 262
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29:25
The War of 1812 Revisited
Welcome to Celebrate Poe - episode 261 - The War of 1812 Revisited. This is a look back at the highest rated - at least audience wise - podcast episode of Celebrate Poe so far - with almost 500 downloads.Now, historian Alan Ta...
July 29, 2024
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Season 3
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Episode 261
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26:44
Poe's Most Valuable Books
Welcome to Celebrate Poe - this is episode 260 - the Wilmer Manuscript Collection.When you think of Edgar Allan Poe, what works come to mind? Perhaps The Raven or Annabel Lee - or one of his many stories such as The Cask of Amo...
July 25, 2024
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Season 3
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Episode 260
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25:02
Self Destructive Elements
This the final episode of a series that looks at what might have happened if Edgar Allan Poe had chosen a different path - if he had decided to become a soldier after his time at West Point, and not one of the greatest of all American writer...
July 22, 2024
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Season 3
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Episode 259
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27:44
Waking at 6 AM
Welcome to Celebrate Poe - my name is George Bartley, and this is episode 257 - Waking at 6 AMThis and the following podcast episodes are an alternate or what if history exercises. The episodes look at what might have happened ...
July 18, 2024
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Season 3
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Episode 258
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24:47
Literary Ambitions
This and the following podcast episodes in this series are an alternate or what if history exercises. The episodes look at what might have happened if Edgar Allan Poe had chosen a different path - if he had decided to become a soldier ...
July 15, 2024
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Season 3
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Episode 257
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32:40
A Dream and a Career
This and the following three podcast episodes were begun as what if history exercises. These episodes look at what might have happened if Edgar Allan Poe had chosen a different path - if he had decided to become a soldier after his tim...
July 10, 2024
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Season 3
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Episode 255
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23:33
Poe and Democracy
Welcome back to Celebrate Poe - This is episode 254 - Poe’s Views on Democracy. Today I would like to talk with Mr. Poe about his views of government - and especially about what he might have thought about the specter of Donald Trump. ...
July 01, 2024
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Season 3
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Episode 254
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30:23
Defending the Sacredness of Love
This podcast episode deals with an address given by Robert G. Ingersoll - one of the individuals who spoke at Whitman’s funeral.He was the poet of Love. He was not ashamed of that divine passion that has built every home; ...
June 30, 2024
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Season 3
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Episode 253
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22:24
Call Me By Your Name
The main title of this episode, Call Me By Your Name, is taken from the text of a letter written to Whitman by one of Whitman’s admirers - none other than Bram Stoker, the author of Dracula.Trickle drops! my blue veins lea...
June 27, 2024
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Season 3
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Episode 252
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22:01
When Walter Met Peter
Welcome to Celebrate Poe - Episode 251 - When Whitman Met Peter - this episode deals with an essential area of Walt Whitman’s life and creative spirit - in fact, you might even say that a twenty-something immigrant served as an inspiration a...
June 27, 2024
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Season 3
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Episode 251
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22:29
Whitman and the Civil War
Welcome to Celebrate Poe - This is episode 250 Whitman and the Civil War.Walt Whitman was forty-two years old when the Civil War started. Some critics would charge that he should have joined the Union Army, but anyone who knew...
June 21, 2024
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Season 3
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Episode 250
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20:46
America's First Gay Bar
This is episode 249 - America’s First Gay BarWhile the word gay certainly wasn’t used to connote same sex attraction during Walt Whitman’s lifetime, Whitman DID patronize an establishment at 647 Broadway that today might be considere...
June 13, 2024
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Season 3
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Episode 249
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24:10
America's Poet
Welcome to Celebrate Poe - This is episode 248 - America’s Poet - This is the first full episode of Pride Month dealing with Walt Whitman.This episode emphasizes that Whitman continually revised and added new poems to his masterpiece...
June 08, 2024
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Season 3
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Episode 248
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19:29
Same Sex Attraction in the 19th Century
Welcome to Celebrate Poe - My name is George Bartley, and this is Episode 247 - Same Sex Attraction in the 19th CenturyAs I write the script for this podcast episode, tomorrow is the first day of LGBTQ month - and similar to previous...
May 31, 2024
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Season 3
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Episode 247
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20:37
My Home Town
Today I’d like to take a slight change of pace with a look at an area that is not often associated with Edgar Allan Poe, but an area in which the Allan family vacationed - White Sulphur Springs during the summers of 1812, 1813, and 1814. &nb...
May 27, 2024
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Season 3
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Episode 246
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24:22
Byron's Influence on Poe
Welcome to Celebrate Poe - My name is George Bartley, and this is Episode 245 - Byron’s Influences on Poe. This episode is the third - and final - for now - episode about Lord Byron, and does not deal as much with Byron’s escapades in ...
May 21, 2024
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Season 3
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Episode 245
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18:37