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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
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