Let’s Not Try to Rescue Stormy Edgar Allan Poe
This year is the 150th anniversary of Edgar Allan Poe’s death, and Poe’s idolizers are still fighting his obituary. Poe had made Rufus Griswold, a minister, his literary executor, and at Poe’s death at age 40, after the writer’s drunken binge in Baltimore, Griswold detailed his failings. Poe was an erratic but brilliant star who Read More
