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Edgar Allen Poe’s Tales and Poems
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Enter the mysterious world of Edgar Allan Poe, a man who was both a super-rationalist and a spiritual thinker, who was amazingly practical and endlessly impractical. Through close readings of Poe’s most haunting tales and poems, students will explore themes of beauty, mortality, terror and the human soul—discussed with a Catholic lens that encourages deep reflection and critical thinking.
Course description: Poe is one of America’s most fascinating, most praised and most read authors. Each story is a different mix of trying to explain the world rationally and psychologically, and yet always bordering on or moving fully into a world that seems supernatural. Poe is intoxicated by beauty but always dreading some horror that may lie beyond. Only in his poem to the Virgin Mary is there a complete peace.
Instructor: Dr. Henry Russell
The Essential Stories & Poems of Edgar Allan Poe (illustrated). ISBN: 1703239288 (https://amzn.to/4jfclfF or BookFinder.com)
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Edgar Allen Poe’s Tales and Poems
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Henry Russell
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Spring 2026
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Literature ➤ Survey Literature
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High School
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Sophia Russell
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January 8th, 2026 at 10:00 AM ET
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Live
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$127
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25 seats available
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24 seats remaining
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None
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Outline
Course outline:
First Session: Biography
Second Session: The Murders in the Rue Morgue
Third Session: The Tell-Tale Heart
Fourth Session: A Cask of Amontillado
Fifth Session: Poems
Sixth Session: The Fall of the House of Usher
Seventh Session: The Fall of the House of Usher
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Homework
An hour to an hour and a half’s reading per class. Computer-graded quizzes and final for immediate feedback.
Fees
Fee: For all 7 classes: $107 if you register on or before November 15; $127 if you register after Nov. 15. (Registration closes one week before the first day of class. After that date, registrations are not guaranteed. There is a $25 surcharge for late enrollments after the course is closed.)
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About Henry Russell
A graduate of Princeton and South Carolina (MS), Dr. Henry Russell completed his graduate work at Louisiana State University. Formerly the Chairman of Ave Maria College’s Department of Literature, he has also been a professor at Franciscan University of Steubenville and Wake Forest University. He is a founding faculty member of the St. Robert Southwell Creative Writing Workshop held in Mahwah, New Jersey.
Dr. Russell is Headmaster of the St. Augustine’s Homeschool Enrichment Program, which he founded with his wife Crystal. The program began in Fall 2005 with 20 students in two living rooms and now tutors more than 140 students in three locations.
Dr. Russell’s works include The Catholic Shakespeare Audio Series. He was the Associate Editor of The Formalist from 1990-2004 and his writings have been published in various journals. He was honored to edit Dr. Alice von Hildebrand’s groundbreaking volume, The Privilege of Being a Woman.
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