![]() And that untimely end, so mysterious and pathetic, was an event that only Poe or Fate could have been macabre enough to script. His work was lauded during his lifetime, but his lifestyle never came close to matching the legacy that would swell in the decades following his death. Born into troubled conditions, Poe's life hardly improved over the years, and when it did, his happiness or triumph was always brief. ![]() A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known.Įdgar Allan Poe was one of America's first native-born professional authors, but he nevertheless embodied the now-common archetype of the artist - dark, tortured, brilliant and tragic. ![]()
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