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Showing posts with label the wall street journal. Show all posts

Monday, January 19, 2009

Happy Birthday Edgar Allan Poe

The raven (Edgar Allen Poe) by kevindooley.horizontal space
Photo by kevindooley
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
`'Tis some visitor,' I muttered, `tapping at my chamber door -
Only this, and nothing more.'
Read the rest of The Raven here
Peter Ackroyd's short bio of one of the countries most
beloved and poorly understood poets! To hear his
interview on Bob Edwards Weekend via XM Satellite
radio click here

Edgar Allan Poe Gravesite by redsox8945.
Photo by redsox8945

The tradition of leaving a half bottle of bourbon
and (usually) a single rose on Edgar Allan Poe's
Gravestone in Baltimore come every birthday
(the giver remains a mystery..)

Great article in the Wall Street Journal-
Poe at 200- Eerie After All These Years

And a reading of The Raven by Vincent Price