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edgar poe
Title: edgar poe
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 2421 | Pages: 10.3 (approximately 235 words/page)
edgar poe
Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston, grew up in Richmond, Virginia, and in his many
restless moves, lived in half a dozen Eastern cities. His true home was always in the "misty
mid region of Weir" of his own fertile and troubled imagination.
His father was David Poe, a Baltimore actor. His actress mother, Elizabeth, born of English
parents, had come to the United States as a child. The two were not notably talented; …showed first 75 words of 2421 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 2421 total…methods of analysis in his detective stories. No one has outdone him in creating an atmosphere
of morbid horror in such tales as The Pit and the Pendulum and The Tell-Tale Heart. The best of his poetry is
pure magic.
There is no better summary of his life and work than the quotation from Francis Bacon, inscribed over the
Poe Gate at West Point:
"There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportions."
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