Edgar Allan Poe: reviews, quotes and works

Edgar Allan Poe

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The Profile

Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) was an American writer, poet, editor, and critic. A central figure of American Romanticism, he pioneered the modern detective story with C. Auguste Dupin and left enduring works of Gothic horror and lyric poetry.

Born in Boston and died in Baltimore; pioneered detective fiction via C. Auguste Dupin; published his first collection, Tamerlane and Other Poems (1827), anonymously as “A Bostonian”; renowned for The Raven and tales of the macabre.

Three reviews celebrate Poe’s debut poetry, a chilling late tale, and the seminal Dupin detective cycle. One revisits Tamerlane And Other Poems and its youthful intensity and anonymity as “A Bostonian.” Another unpacks The Sphinx, where terror contests reason during a cholera outbreak. A third lauds an audiobook rendering of the Dupin trilogy, praising narration and sound design.

Notable Quotes

❝ One of my first loves is undoubtedly the brooding Poe, and I consider his 1827 debut of significant importance: Tamerlane And Other Poems.

❝ Edgar Allan Poe is undeniably placed in the category of the great masters of the past.

❝ We are talking about one of the most famous trilogies of all time, namely the first cycle of Auguste Dupin's adventures, the archetype of the modern detective, created by the genius of Edgar Allan Poe.