His 1847 poem "Ulalume" mentions "The ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir" (he really liked ghoulish stuff)
[DOC] [TLE] Cambridge_History_of_American_Lit vol 4 | Arpita Singh ... [PAR] Packer finds both wit and lyrical beauty in his poetry, as well as in the .... York City 
he happened to mention to a new acquaintance that his idea of heaven would be 
... American poets already loved Shakespeare, Milton, Dryden, Pope, Thomson, 
.... however, faced an obstacle no American poet really knew how to surmount.