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-- Anonymous, September 25, 2003

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get a life

-- Anonymous, September 26, 2003

well he married his cousin when she was 13 and he was in his 30's! he also was a major drinker

-- Anonymous, September 26, 2003

well he married his cousin when she was 13 and he was in his 30's! he also was a major drinker! ya i thought that was interesting

-- Anonymous, September 26, 2003

No, he was 27, nerds,,,know what ur talking about

-- Anonymous, September 29, 2003

the name of Poe's detective in all his mystery stories is Auguste Dupin.

-- Anonymous, September 29, 2003

he was 25 when he married his cousin don't you know how to count?

-- Anonymous, September 29, 2003

he was 27 years old when he married her if you dont know any thing about him then don't say anything about him

-- Anonymous, September 29, 2003

Edgar A. Poe was known as Master of Terror. And I have found original documents of his letters he has written to John Allan and his Aunt Maria Poe Clemm. Also I have found a whole lot of pictures so any of Poe’s real fans can email me an I will gladly tell you where you can find them.

-- Anonymous, September 29, 2003

Edgar Allan poe proposed to helen in a grave yard. Since helen was facinated with death as much as poe was. Helen wore a neclace with a coffin around her neck.

-- Anonymous, September 29, 2003

Many people think of Poe as being a person for whom every day was Halloween----hope this "balances "out" some people's views of him.

As a youth, people found him bright, lively & amiable. He, of course, did have quite an imagination. It's said that as a child, Poe was scared of the dark, partly because of the spooky stories his nanny told him. When he was about 5, he had developed a "stand-up routine" for his foster parents' dinner guests: They'd give him a glass of diluted wine, and he'd imitate a rakish fellow giving a toast. When he was about 8, his headmaster in England said that he "liked the boy," but that his parents had "spoilt him, and allowed him an extravagant amount of pocket-money, which enabled him to get into all manner of mischief."

By his teenage years, Poe was proficient at dancing, boxing, swimming, foreign languages, math----(basically good at everything but gambling). Also gifted at drawing, he frequently drew charcoal sketches on the walls and ceiling of his dorm room in college---- often while he read his stories to classmates.(See http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/poe/alumnews/poe-all.html for more details.)

Humor---Poe frequently used humor & sarcasm---in his stories, and esp. in his often-catty reviews of other writers. Humor in his stories ranges from subtle irony (Cask of Amontillado), to slapstick, silly puns & imitations of foreign accents. ". . . comedies, satires and hoaxes account for more than half his [Poe's] total output of short stories, and the last of them, 'X-ing a Paragrab,' appeared only a few months before the author's obscure death in 1849" [From www.eapoe.org-----see this site, for much more info.] As a person, he could be morose at times----but he also had a very playful nature. Neighbor children grew up to have fond memories of his playing with them, taking then on walks, etc.

Self-parody: His story "The Angel of the Odd" is a string of slapstick events, that seem to be take-offs on his scariest stories. (For example: In this story, the main character's pants are stolen by a drunken crow. ("Raven" parody?)). Poe also said, "I have great faith in fools....self-confidence my friends call it." He was prone to hoaxes----enough that, when one of his friends read his obituary, the friend thought the death was another one of Poe's jokes.

Variety of topics----Many people think Poe wrote only of death---the answer is: "not!"....He wrote on a great variety of subjects, and immersed himself in the latest technological, scientific, etc. discoveries of his day----everything from balloon travel to the exploration of Antarctica. Some "advances" he couldn't help making fun of, such as bustles in women's clothing (i.e. saying that, with bustles, you can't tell the difference between a woman and a dromedary camel) Another of his essays is about Poe's "do's and don't's" of interior decorating---"playing Martha Stewart," in other words. The future: He wrote a story on moon travel, & what the earth might look like from outer space. Wrote of balloons that would move at 150 mph & carry hundreds of people; wrote of transatlantic cable. Such stories were refered to as hoaxes; the term "science fiction" had yet to be coined. "Oops" events----some of his "science fiction" stories were so convincingly written, that sometimes they wound up in scientific journals, or in the Congressional record, as fact.

-- Anonymous, September 30, 2003

Helen??!?!??!?!?!??!?!?! what the heck

-- Anonymous, September 30, 2003

helen was one of many poe had interests in

-- Anonymous, October 02, 2003