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FINDING POE AMONG THE SHADOWS
From: The Boston Globe
Date: 20050619
Author:James Sallis
It is Edgar Allan Poe's fate forever to be misunderstood. Ostracized by power brokers among his literary contemporaries, grossly misrepresented by the press of his time and by executor and supposed friend Rufus Griswold upon his death, his name linked inextricably with bad horror movies and adolescent frissons, Poe today is taken for granted and goes largely unread, his work like those old, old songs we all know and can hum . . . we think.
So let's start off with a pop quiz. Hum a few bars together, as it were.
What American writer to all intent and purpose formulated both the modern ...
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