Which of Edgar's works are known to have been written while he served at Fort Independence in Boston from 1827 to 1829?

-- Anonymous, July 09, 2003

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At this time, when serving in artillery, Poe was still writing essentially poems (new, or some revised "older" ones from his anonymous 1827-pamphlet "Tamerlane and Other Poems / by a Bostonian") in order to publish them eventually (in 1829) under the title "Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems / by Edgar A. Poe". You can find the whole corpus of these publications at www.eapoe.org. But to be more precise seems to me relatively hazardous. Perhaps, too, some lines for girl-friends or relatives? No trace of prose fiction accepted in the canon by the best scholars, to my knowledge. Yours sincerely, Raven's Shade (Belgium).

-- Anonymous, July 09, 2003

Back home, I checked for you what follows:

According to **Thomas/Jackson - 1987 - "Poe Log"** (still the best and most reliable bank of biographical data on our author), Poe was no more a soldier when he wrote the private lines I alluded to yesterday ("Alone", "Elizabeth", "An Acrostic"...); and his 1829- volume of poems has been issued very late in the year (end of December).

Yours, Raven's Shade (Belgium).

-- Anonymous, July 10, 2003