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Edgar Allen Poe

19097 minUnited States
Drama

Synopsis

Poe tries to sell a newly written poem so that he can buy food and medicine for his gravely ill wife. Rejections and a brief success delay his return home, where his hopes for helping her meet a devastating reality.

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Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs
7:06
Subtitles
No subtitle track in this language

No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

Languages and subtitles

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Wikimedia Commons · D.W. Griffith · Public domain

Cast

DirectorsD. W. Griffith

Historical context

Biograph promoted the short during the centenary of Poe's birth. It is a fictionalized episode, and the original release title misspelled the writer's middle name as Allen.

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Work catalogued as public domain in the United States.

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Availability checked on September 16, 2026.

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  • Herbert Yost — The Theatre Magazine Co.; The Theatre vol. 13 - 1911 · Public domain
  • Linda Arvidson — No photographer credited; Image of "Linda Griffith" published in The Moving Picture News (New York, N.Y.), 16 August 1913, p. 11; digital copy from Internet Archive (San Francisco, California): https://archive.org/details/movingpicturenew81unse/page/n250/mode/2up · Public domain

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