TO POE.
You lived in a land horror-haunted,
And wrote with a pen half-divine;
You drank bitter sorrow, undaunted
And cast precious pearls before swine.
Edwin C. Ranck
The Raven
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The Raven, With illustrations by Édouard Manet, 1875
Read More..>>Poe Biography from our Album of Authors, 1886
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This bio of Edgar Allan Poe appeared in “Our Album of Authors,” published in 1886. Modern biographers are divided as to the actual cause of his death, but it is generally agreed upon that slander and gossip tainted many early biographies of Poe, our great American poet and author.
Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston, [...]
