Edgar Allan Poe was like a real genius of some sort honestly and his life was just too terrible 4 him to handle but i like his poetry though and the mystery surrounding them and his stories. I wonder what it would have been like in his shoes

My favourite tale of Poe's so far is The Thousand And Second Tale of Scheharezade. It puts a very different complexion on that particular work of literature and adds a certain edge to it! I would highly recommend this one if you haven't read it yet - very dark and comic!

I've been reading poe for about 13 years. My first book of his work was actually something I stole from my 8th grade Lit class. My teacher had to know since I was the only one remotely interested and suddenly one of the books we were supposed to hand in at the end of each day went missing.... He didn't care though cause I was at least learning!

My favorite poem is Annabel Lee, it's going to be read at my wedding (umm...not the whole thing, just the bit before she dies...heh...maybe no one will notice?)

Wowww. I'm studying Poe at university at the moment and I must say, happy (or not...) days! Once I'd gotten over the fact that he DOES have a morbid obsession with being buried alive and yes, it was going to crop up a lot, I decided that I LOVE Edgar Allan Poe. The Pit and the Pendulum and Ligeia (sp?!) are my favourites so far. Mind you, I did enjoy Berenice a lot too. As I mentioned previously in this thread, The Masque of the Red Death is good too.

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Your Dad sounds AWESOME.

Clockbox does an edit: because he is a poetry snob, not because he scares off your men. I am so very bad at explaining what I mean.

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I can't blame him for either to be frank.
He made me read Paradise Lost at the age of nine.
Decided to try and speed up my mental development.
And then wonders why I infuriate every guy I meet who's my age.

 

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Sounds like my family, from when I was about ten my dad used to give me 'intellectual homework' which usually consisted of him quoting Shakespeare at me and then expecting me to read until I found which play the quotation was from... (in the days before I discovered the wonders of Google!)

Poe is a god, I've been reading him since year 5 or 6... My current favourite is Hopfrog. At GCSE we had to read The Black Cat and The Tell-Tale Heart, which was a wonderful respite from the usual dross we studied. In my first year of Eng Lang A Level, for coursework we were asked to write a piece in a certain style. I decided to write a short story in the style of Poe, which I enjoyed immensely, and was absolutely gutted when my laptop hard disk crashed last year and I lost the story :(

One of my most prized possessions is a big hardback book called 'Poe's Tales of Mystery and Imagination', illustrated by Arthur Rackham. The art complements the 25 short stories in the book gorgeously (illustration from Hopfrog) and is perfectly vile and beautiful.

i love edgar allen poe. i have the entire collection of all his works.

Edgar Allen Poe is truly an amazing man.

But my favorites are probably his 2 most known.
I grew up with my mom reciting Annabel Lee to me when I'd wake up with nightmares or have one of my freak outs.

I also really like the bells and the raven.

but to chose as favorite story?
I cannot.
I love them all to dearly.

I got an awesome book not so long back. It's all of his poems but in a graphic novel.

Edgar Allan Poe is my idol when it comes to poetry  His short stories are good too.
He was so ahead of his time I think...and his imagination was incredible!
I recently bought a book full of his poems and stories, and I've been hooked!
According to Wikipedia, my birthday is on the date he died...

-- Edited by PandaPrincess on Tuesday 30th of March 2010 07:11:14 PM