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The Purloined Life Of Edgar Allan Poe:
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The Purloined Life of Edgar Allan Poe
by Jeffrey Steinberg
This account is based on a lecture delivered in Detroit, Michigan in mid-September , to a group of LaRouche Youth Movement members who have launched a research project to revive the life and works of Edgar Allan Poe, and was first published in Executive Intelligence Review, Dec. 12, (Vol. 30, No. 48). |
A great deal of what people think they know about Edgar Allan Poe, is wrong. Furthermore, there is not that much known about himother than that people have read at least one of his short stories, or poems; and its common even today, that in English literature classes in high schoolmaybe upper levels of elementary schoolyoure told about Poe. And if you ever got to the point of being told something about Poe as an actual personality, you have probably heard some summary distillation of the slanders about him: He died as a drunk; he was crazy; he was one of these people who demonstrate that genius and creativity always have a dark side, and the dark side is that most really creative geniuses are insane, and usually something bad comes of them, because the very thing that gives them the
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Edgar Allan Poe
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American author, poet, editor, and literary critic Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, , and he died on October 7, . He is well renowned for his short stories and poetry, especially his macabre and mystery-themed works. Poe is credited with creating the detective fiction subgenre and significantly contributing to the newly emerging science fiction subgenre.
The actors David and Elizabeth "Eliza" Poe had their second child, Poe, in Boston. John and Frances Allan of Richmond, Virginia, adopted Poe after his mother's death, and his father left the family in He lived with them until he was a teenager, despite the fact that they never officially adopted him. He stayed at the University of Virginia for a year because of financial constraints, and then he departed. He had a disagreement with John Allan over how to pay for his studies and his gambling debts. After entering the American Army under a false name and receiving only the credit of "a Bostonian," he published his first book, Tamerlane and Other Poems, in
He wed Virginia Clemm, a year-old relative, in ; however, she passed away from the disease in Poe published his poem "The Raven" in January , which gained immediate popularity. For years, he had intended to publish his own n