Is “Poet” named after Edgar Allan Poe?

No, it comes via Latin, Old French, and Middle English, from the Ancient Greek: Poiétés. Roughly translated it means “he who creates”. read more

Poe's final home is preserved as the Edgar Allan Poe Cottage in the Bronx. In Boston, a commemorative plaque on Boylston Street is several blocks away from the actual location of Poe's birth. read more

After several years in a Richmod academy, Poe was sent to the University of Virginia. After a year, John Allan refused to give him more money, possibly because of Poe's losses at gambling. Poe then had to leave the university. In 1827 he published, in Boston, Tamerlane and Other Poems. read more