Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) remains one of the most singular figures in American letters: poet, critic, short story pioneer, and gothic visionary. His life, brief and tumultuous, has long been folded into the myth of his work — the impoverished genius, the tragic outsider, the writer of haunted tales who himself died mysteriously. But Poe’sContinue reading “Edgar Allan Poe: The Architect of American Shadows”
