Who is Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe (; born Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. He is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States, and of American literature. Poe was one of the country's earliest practitioners of the short story, and considered to be the inventor of the detective fiction genre, as well as a significant contributor to the emerging genre of science fiction. Poe is the first well-known American writer to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career.Poe was born in Boston, the second child of actors David and Elizabeth "Eliza" Poe. His father abandoned...
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Edgar Allan Poe Poems

• Annabel Lee
  C'était il y a plusieurs années
  Dans un royaume au bord de la mer,
  Qu'il y avait une vierge que vous connaissez peut-être
  Avec le nom ANNABEL LEE; ...
• Annabel Lee
  Es war viele und viele vor einem Jahr,
  In einem Königreich am Meer,
  Dass dort eine Jungfrau lebte, die Sie vielleicht kennen
  Mit dem Namen ANNABEL LEE; ...
• Annabel Lee
  Fue hace muchos y muchos años atrás,
  En un reino junto al mar,
  Que una doncella vivió allí a quien quizás conozcas
  Con el nombre de ANNABEL LEE; ...
• Scenes From "politian." An Unpublished Drama
  I.
  
  ROME.--A Hall in a Palace. ALESSANDRA and CASTIGLIONE
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• The Lake - Early Version
  In youth's spring, it was my lot
  To haunt of the wide earth a spot
  The which I could not love the less;
  So lovely was the loneliness ...

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Edgar Allan Poe Quotes

• Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
• Take this kiss upon the brow And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow-- You are not wrong who deem That my days have been a dream Yet if hope has flown away In a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream.
• All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.
• Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.
• I have great faith in fools; self-confidence, my friends call it.

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