"Was Poe Immoral" was a biography and defense of American author and poet Edgar Allan Poe, by Sarah Helen Whitman. More than a poet and a contemporary of Poe, Whitman knew Poe and was one of his romantic interests.Written and published after Poe's death, it first appeared under the title of "Poe and His Critics".
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Sarah Helen Whitman
Sarah Helen Power Whitman (January 19, 1803 - June 27, 1878), was a poet, essayist, transcendentalist, Spiritualist and a romantic interest of Edgar Allan Poe.
Whitman was born in Providence, Rhode Island on January 19, 1803, exactly six years before Poe's birth. In 1828, she married the poet and...