Know your Poe!

“The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.”

Nice quote, eh?

Here is a link to the "shmoop" on Edgar Allan Poe (wink wink) More information may be found in Fields of Vision where you can read about Poe as a writer of American Romanticism (which we have read as a contrast/parallel to British Romanticism)
As always, sparknotes is also a valuable source.