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    Edgar Allan Poe

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    I found him well educated, with unusual powers of mind, but infected with misanthropy, and subject to perverse moods of alternate enthusiasm and melancholy. ↗


    — Edgar Allan Poe

    #education

    ..bear in mind that, in general, it is the object of our newspapers rather to create a sensation-to make a point-than to further the cause of truth." Dupin in "The Mystery of Marie Roget ↗


    — Edgar Allan Poe

    #the-beautiful-cigar-girl #beauty

    There is no beauty without some strangeness. ↗


    — Edgar Allan Poe

    #beauty

    I seemed to be upon the verge of comprehension, without the power to comprehend as men, at time, find themselves upon the brink of rememberance, without being able, in the end, to remember. ↗


    — Edgar Allan Poe

    #men

    I have been happy, though in a dream. I have been happy-and I love the theme: Dreams! in their vivid colouring of life As in that fleeting, shadowy, misty strife ↗


    — Edgar Allan Poe

    #edgar-allan-poe #poetry #dreams

    the truth is, I am heartily sick of this life & of the nineteenth century in general. (I am convinced that every thing is going wrong.) ↗


    — Edgar Allan Poe

    #life

    Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness. ↗


    — Edgar Allan Poe

    #poetry #music

    In the deepest slumber-no! In delirium-no! In a swoon-no! In death-no! even in the grave all is not lost. ↗


    — Edgar Allan Poe

    #death

    but it is a trait in the perversity of human nature to reject the obvious and the ready, for the far-distant and equivocal. ↗


    — Edgar Allan Poe

    #nature

    Depend upon it, after all, Thomas, Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man. For my own part, there is no seducing me from the path. ↗


    — Edgar Allan Poe

    #writing-craft #writing-craft






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    Jefferson had enacted a system of student self-government allowing students to choose their own studies make their own arrangements for boarding and report all wrongdoing to the faculty. Though it made Poe a household name almost instantly he was paid only $9 for its publication. Legacy


    Literary influence
    During his lifetime Poe was mostly recognized as a literary critic.

    He began planning to produce his own journal The Penn (later renamed The Stylus) though he died before it could be produced. Poe was taken in by John and Frances Allan of Richmond Virginia but they never formally adopted him. In January 1845 Poe publiEdgar Allan Poed his poem "The Raven" to instant success.

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