If you enjoy reading and/or writing you likely know that stories make people connect.
By the time I was entering secondary school, I was spending a lot of time at the library reading poetry and concentrating on the complete works of Edgar Allan Poe, a literary critic born in Boston, Massachusetts on Jan 19, 1809.
Poe's parents died when he was a child so he was raised by his godfather, John Allan and in 1836, Poe went on to marry his 13-year-old cousin, Virginia Clemm, though her age was listed as 21.
One of the most well-known lines in English poetry, “Quoth the raven, 'Nevermore. '” is found in Edgar Allan Poe's “The Raven”.
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Many years have passed since secondary school and I have numerous copies of Poe's work which is often about moanful self-destruction.
My copies include graphic novels and books written about his life by other authors.
You can learn how Donald Andrew Hall Jr., author of over 50 books including 22 volumes of verse, early attraction to monster movies led him to the poetry of Edgar Allan Poe.
One things for sure, it did seem Poe's own life was as tragic as his tales.