![]() ![]() ![]() Poe came to be friends with the faculty of what was then St. Today, the bell is kept in a vault inside the campus’s Walsh Library. To the tintinabulation that so musically wellsįrom the jingling and the tinkling of the bells. What a world of merriment their melody foretells! In fact, there is a plaque on the exterior of the University Church that reads in part, “The bell in the tower, known since as Old Edgar Allan, is said to have inspired Poe, a friend and neighbor, to write his celebrated poem, ‘The Bells.'” Hear the sledges with the bells. ![]() Some scholars believe that Poe drew inspiration from the campus for some of his most famous works. Edgar Allan Poe lived in the New York City borough of the Bronx for a number of years, and his house can still be visited a few blocks from the Jesuit-sponsored Fordham University. ![]()
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