Edgar Allan Poe is a man who is considered to be a true American genius of our time. After reading one of his works in class, I realized that his mysterious style of writing appealed to me. His works have been collected and celebrated for over a hundred years from this day. He was a man whose dreary horror tales captured and frightened the minds of millions. Poe differed from most other acclaimed writers. The …showed first 75 words of 1342 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1342 total…terror and horror writer. So I restate that Poe was one of the greatest writers that ever lived and his mind was of a genius and it should never have been put to such torture by the criticism of human kind. His mind was very precious and all we can do now is feel sorry for him, because being such a gifted writer he shouldn’t have died in such a lonely and sad state.