No, this has nothing to do with Pink Floyd. This episode deals with the genre of travel literature - a genre that we don’t often associate with Poe.
George’s top 5 favorite works of travel literature are
Note: A very nervous ghost of Charles Dickens makes a brief appearance to read from American Notes.
The episode concludes with a great example of travel literature - a letter written about a traveler to Warm and Hot Springs (on the way to White Sulphur Spring.s.
Sources include White Sulphur Papers, or Life at the Springs of Western Virginia published by Samuel Colman in 1839, Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical Biography by Arthur Hobson Quinn, The Poe Log: A Documentary Life of Edgar Allan Poe by Dwight R. Thomas and David K. Jackson, and Highways to Health and Pleasure: The Antebellum Turnpikes and Trade of the Mineral Springs in Greenbrier and Monroe Counties by Lana Martindale, American Notes by Charles Dickens, and Charles Dickens by Michael Slater.
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