A Plethora of Poe

American author Edgar Allan Poe was born on this date, January 19th, in 1809. You may have heard of him, he wrote a coupla things worth reading...

 

 

 

 

 

Yr Humble Narrator at the author's grave site, 2012

"...the most poetical topic in the world."

"The death, then, of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world."

E.A. Poe.
"The Philosophy of Composition" (1846)


Lingard by Colin Wilson (1970)
1980 Pocket Books cover art by George Ziel