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Edgar Allan Poe
July 21, 2021
Colin Dickey
Edgar Allan Poe, Crank Scientist
The great discoveries of the age captivated his imagination. He almost always misunderstood them.
October 17, 2014
William Giraldi
Edgar Allan Poe Was a Vampire
That’s what you love about him: his creepiness, his otherness, his charismatic diabolism
December 31, 2010
Elizabeth D. Samet
Military Metamorphoses
October 2, 1976
Erich Segal
Slouching Towards America
December 8, 1926
Edmund Wilson
Poe at Home and Abroad
Critic Edmund Wilson reflects on the great writer's legacy.
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