Great Immortal Dead #023 - Edgar Allan Poe

in #people6 years ago

Remembering Edgar Allan Poe

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He was an American writer, poet, critic and romantic journalist
Poe invented the detective story, perfected the horror tale, and first articulated the theory of the modern short story
as well as the idea of pure poetry


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Poe has never been entirely respectable to American critics because of two causes: Being too eccentric, and too popular among common readers


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Among his most famous works are The Raven, The Black Cat or The Tell-Tale Heart

You can visit The Poe Museum to know more about him or his work


Edgar Allan Poe 1809 - 1849

"Invisible things are the only realities"
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"There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion"

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Thanks for reading ;)

Greetings from Spain @itsfall173

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