Reference Writer: II - Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
American poet, critic, short story writer, and author of such macabre works as “The Fall of the House of Usher” (1840);
Contributing greatly to the genres of horror and science fiction, Poe is now considered the father of the modern detective story and highly lauded as a poet. Walt Whitman, in his essay titled “Edgar Poe’s Significance” wrote;Poe’s verses illustrate an intense faculty for technical and abstract beauty, with the rhyming art to excess, an incorrigible propensity toward nocturnal themes, a demoniac undertone behind every page. …
There is an indescribable magnetism about the poet’s life and reminiscences, as well as the poems.