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Edgar Allan Poe January 19th, 1809 - October 7th, 1849 Perhaps one of the most prolific authors of the 19th century, Edgar Allan Poe was a master of Gothic literature as well as inspiring countless other famous authors and the creation of symbolism.
 * "I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity."**


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Accomplishments . . Random Facts(From the Everything Guide to Edgar Allan Poe):
 * Poe helped to create Symbolism
 * Created the first modern detective story with "Murders in the Rue Morgue"
 * His signature style has been envied by many for years
 * Was a significaint reviewer, and reviwed works by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Dickens, and others.
 * The Mystery Writers of America have the annual "Edgar Awards".
 * Poe wrote several hoaxes so convincing that one ended up being reprinted as "fact" in the Congressional record.
 * The summer he was 15, Poe swam six miles up the James River against a powerful current.
 * Poe was 5'8", tall at the time: The average for the white American male was 5'5 1/2"
 * Poe had several readings of "Phrenology" which was, basically, the belief that the brain hosted 26 "organs" each serving as the seat of a mental faculty, and that if there was a bump in the skull over where a partucular organ supposedly was, that faculty was highly developed.
 * Poe was called"Tomahawk Man" because of his harsh reviews.
 * The three mascots of the Baltimore (A city Poe spent much time in) Ravens are named Edgar, Allan, and Poe.

. . Quotes:
 * //"It is a thousand pities that the puny witticisms of a few professional objectors should have power to prevent...the adoption of a name for our country...There should be no hesitation about 'Appalachia'. In the first place, it is distinctive. 'America' is not, and can never be made so...South America ia 'America', and will insist upon remaining so...I yet hope to find 'Appalachia' assumed// -- Poe on his nation's name.
 * " //The true genius shudders at incompleteness--imperfection--and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not every thing that should be said...Sometimes, dashing into a subject, he blunders, hesitates, stops short, sticks fast, and, because he has been overwhelmed by the rush and multiplicity of his thoughts, his hearers sneer at his inability to think." --// Poe on listening to genius, 1848.
 * //"What do they know about Shakespeare? They worship him--rant about him--lecture about him--about him, him and nothing else--for no other reason than that he is utterly beyond their comprehension...As for their own opinion about him--they really have none at all. --// Poe on Shakespeare worship.