POE

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• POE (noun)
  The noun POE has 1 sense:

1. United States writer and poet (1809-1849)

  Familiarity information: POE used as a noun is very rare.

• POE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States writer and poet (1809-1849)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Edgar Allan Poe; Poe

Instance hypernyms:

poet (a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry))

author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))

 Context examples 

"It was as good as Poe. Splendid, I said at the time, splendid!"

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I glanced over them, noting with astonishment such names as Shakespeare, Tennyson, Poe, and De Quincey.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

You remember, he said, that some little time ago when I read you the passage in one of Poe’s sketches in which a close reasoner follows the unspoken thoughts of his companion, you were inclined to treat the matter as a mere tour-de-force of the author.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And there it was again, the division of labour, the special knowledge of the pilot and captain which permitted the stout gentleman to read my special knowledge on Poe while they carried him safely from Sausalito to San Francisco.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

On the other hand, instead of having to devote my energy to the learning of a multitude of things, I concentrated it upon a few particular things, such as, for instance, the analysis of Poe’s place in American literature—an essay of mine, by the way, in the current Atlantic.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)