Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) and the Mask of the Twentieth Century

By David Gosselin

BUT for the cruel aspersions upon the character and life of America’s poetic genius, EDGAR ALLAN POE, this volume would have remained unwritten. EDGAR ALLAN POE has been more misunderstood than any other poet of the recent past. While his life was beautiful and inspired, yet aspersed, his last moments had more of sublimity than those of any of his conte…