# Edgar Allan Poe — Sticks and Stones character guide

> Edgar Allan Poe in Sticks and Stones by Lewis Mumford.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Poe, Edgar Poe

**First appearance:** 0024-i

## Who they are

Writer whose architectural imagery is analyzed for romantic decay.

## In the story

### [IV: The Diaspora of the Pioneer](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sticks_and_stones_se/chapters/iv-the-diaspora-of-the-pioneer)

Noted as a figure whose architectural imagination was stifled by the utilitarian society, dreaming of the Domain of Arnheim.

### [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sticks_and_stones_se/chapters/ii)

Poe is mentioned as a dreamer of fantastic domains like the Domain of Arnheim, representing the stifled architectural imagination in an industrial age.

### [The Gridiron Plan and the Pioneer's Comfort](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sticks_and_stones_se/chapters/iii)

Mentioned as being captivated by the astral-oil lamp, an example of material comfort innovations.

### [The Disintegration of Architecture: 1820-1865](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sticks_and_stones_se/chapters/iv)

Mentioned for his description of a mansion as semi-Gothic, semi-Saracenic in his writings.

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