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Poe is believed to have written "The Bells" in May 1848 and submitted it three times to ''Sartain's Union Magazine'', a magazine co-owned by his friend [[John Sartain]], until it was finally accepted.<ref name="Sova, Dawn B. 2001. p. 25">Sova, Dawn B. ''Edgar Allan Poe: A to Z''. New York: Checkmark Books, 2001. p. 25. {{ISBN|0-8160-4161-X}}</ref> He was paid fifteen dollars for his work, though it was not published until after his death in the November 1849 issue. It was also published in [[Horace Greeley]]'s the ''[[New-York Tribune|New York Daily Tribune]]'' newspaper on the front page of its October 17, 1849 issue as "Poe's Last Poem".<ref>[https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030213/1849-10-17/ed-1/seq-1/ ''The New-York Daily Tribune'', Wednesday, October 17, 1849, "Poe's Last Poem", From the Union Magazine for November, front page.]</ref>
Inspiration for the poem is often granted to Marie Louise Shew, a woman who had helped care for Poe's wife [[Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe|Virginia]] as she lay dying.<ref name="Sova, Dawn B. 2001. p. 25"/> One day, as Shew was visiting Poe at his cottage in Fordham, New York, Poe needed to write a poem but had no inspiration. Shew allegedly heard ringing bells from afar, ostensibly the church bells from nearby Fordham University, and playfully suggested to start there, possibly even writing the first line of each [[stanza]].<ref>[http://www.eapoe.org/works/poems/bellsb.htm E. A. Poe Society of Baltimore<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
==Adaptations==
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