Edgar Allan Poe portrait, painted by Oscar Halling in the late 1860's rename

• Edgar Allan Poe

  

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  Date of birth:

  Jan 19, 1809

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  Country of nationality:

  • United States of America

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  • Literary criticism,
  • Writer,
  • Literary critic,
  • Poet,
  • Novelist

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  Date of death:

  Oct 7, 1849

  Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest...

• If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment...

• In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.

• With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

• The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

  

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  Date of first publication:

  Jul 1838

  The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838) is the only complete novel written by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. The work relates the tale of the young Arthur Gordon Pym who stows away aboard a whaling ship called Grampus. Various...

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