‘To Helen’ is a poem written by Edgar Allan Poe that was first published in 1831. Poe continued to edit and revise the poem and it was published in its final structure in Poe’s 1845 poetry collection titled The Raven and Other Poems.

In the poem, Poe refers to the beauty of Helen of Troy while talking about Jane Stanard, the mother of one of his childhood friends. Poe mentioned that he was infatuated by Jane and she was one of the first dependable older, female presences in his young life.

The central theme of the poem is the beauty of a woman (Jane Stanard in Poe’s case). Poe compares the woman with Helen of Troy and compares the beauty of Helen with various other mythological figures.

In 1952, Hilda Doolittle, better known as H.D. published her poem To Helen in which she offered a response to Poe’s poem ‘To Helen’.
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