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VA. WOMAN INSPIRED POETRY IN EDGAR ALLAN POE.(LOCAL)

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From: The Virginian Pilot
Date: 20040829
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Byline: GEORGE TUCKER

Mrs. Jane Stith Stanard of Richmond (1793-1824), one of the most beautiful Virginia women of her time, was the inspiration for Edgar Allan Poe's poem "To Helen" which Arthur Hobson Quinn, the author of a celebrated biography of the writer, hailed as "one of the most exquisite tributes ever paid by man to woman."

As a longtime admirer of Poe, who had many connections with Norfolk during his brief and tragic life, I recently made a pilgrimage to Shockoe Hill Cemetery in Richmond to visit the grave of Poe's inspirer. And I was richly rewarded. For not ...

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