Edgar Allan still continues to be one of my top favourite writers; and America still till this day has no other writer that surpassed his genius.

Terrific documentary, and it's refreshing not to have background mood music poured like a "sauce" over everything

I’m a huge lifelong Poe fan. This was an excellent video.

Thank you for this documentary. I'm related to Edgar Allan Poe. My mother and grandmother told me that we are related to his mother's side of the family. It's nice to look back at a little bit of my family's past.

He was born in 1809, not 1804, as your opening frame indicates.

Mr. Poe ist always important, always loved, always remembered and never alone.

Great storyteller on Edgar Allan Poe. You contribute to the success of this video.

🪶 Excellent 🪶

Poe continues to be an unsurpassed writer, and he will be for a very long time to come 🤘

Poe's work reflected the dark romanticism & poetic drama of his life

Thank you so much for this in-depth video!! USA

Seeing that thumbnail with Edgar Allen Poe smiling is seriously a strange and jarring experience.

I have been to the museum in Richmond, though it has been a minute...this was a refreshing reminder of his tortured talents. Thank you for producing this documentary.

Sad story. Great writer. A lesson for all of us.

I can't be the only one uncomfortable by a smiling Poe portrait.

outstanding....

Thanks very much for the video. Well written and well read I give you 5 stars. I learned quite a bit about old Poe , things that I thought I already knew. Well done.

What a sad life he led, life was so much harder back then it seems, and shorter. Thank you again for a wonderful story

thank you for sourcing and putting up these author docus...liked and subbed

❤his story as a struggling writer. But he never gave up.

Absolutely an achingly beautiful documentary .. and so meaningful to me .. Edgar Allen Poe is my favorite author and poet .. as he was my mother's before me .. Indeed, she loved him so much that she named me, her firstborn, Virginia ., in honor of Edgar's beloved wife .. What I found most intriguing about this documentary is the lack of background music .. the narrator's clear voice is well modulated and easily heard ., and so lovely to listen to ., Also the illustrations and photographs were beautiful and contributed much to the enjoyment of this video .. Thank you so very much for posting this ,, well appreciated it is indeed❣ Jen999💙

Quoth the Raven: Nevermore

Terrific documentary - I didn't want to hear the sad history as one tragedy after the next befell the hero. Edgar Allan Poe - proud, towering literary figure had little more than a chance to survive success through self destructive disorder. EAP, RIP, the work is superb and the personal story is heartbreaking.

This series of documentaries is absolutely great.

One of the more insightful and original videos about Poe. Thanks for the good, fresh work.

Very well done. Thank you!!

Thank you for this documentary! Extremely well done!!! 💕

Composers such as myself have found his literary work as prime source material for solo and chorus works. The sheer fantastical and dramatic elements of his life and work are rich with creativity and fervor of imagination….RIP Edgar.

Wow! What a documentary! Well researched & well told. Thank you, thank you very much for this. He always seemed an enigma to me but you brought his life to the front through this amazing work of art.

❤ this story of a struggling writer.but he never gave up On his dream as a writer. Dr.tyrone of Chester PA.

This was a very well made documentary. So many new details that i never knew.

Great documentary. Both the work and life of Edgar Allan Poe is very interesting and curious 🥰📚🧐

Thank you.

I don't think I like John Allen. He was rude and arrogant. Poe was awesome. He was a person who did not work at strenous jobs. He always wrote well. His step father was a jerk. I always felt sorry for Edgar. What Allen did to Poe's girlfriend was just wrong. Poe should not have sabotaged his Army career. One must make choices, some are not always the best ones.

My family were interconnected with the Poes. My family the Ushers were also actors as Poe's were. Noble Luke Usher and Harriet L'estrange Usher. They traveled in the same circles and actors guilds. Harriet and Luke had 2 children in which Poe got his idea of the Fall of the House of Usher from. Like Poe's parents the Ushers too died young and close in the same years. Leaving their 2 children orphaned too. The Curfew showed a Mr Usher which I found interesting and delighted to see ☺

Namaste👋💯🤗💝🙏✨💫🌟😘😍💞

Love poe ❤❤❤❤

Excelent audio.

There persist some biographical errors of the Poe story. First, Poe was never "adopted" at law, but merely fostered in the tradition of the Scottish Highlands. Second, we have learned and documented in our own Poe Biography that both John Allan and Dr. MacKinzie were "family" of the Allans and Poes in Ayrshire, Scotland. Our 885 page, 2 volume biography published in 2013 is with the Poe Museum, Richmond, Virginia, the United States Military Academy, West Point Library, N.Y., and others. Robert D. Brill, M.A., J.D., former Police Officer and Detective, Sacramento, California.

Incredibly tragic life story 🥺 his mother died when he was so young. The foster parents didn’t really live him enough, he chose his own children over him. He was ignored when his foster parents died he got nothing. He struggled financially 💰 and mentally 🍷 He wrote from his traumatised mind. 🥺 He loved & lost and lost his way so badly… Brilliant in his writings, he did well. He kept messing up 🫣 When Virginia died he lost it completely affairs, alcohol, 🤯 He was a mind mess. 🥺

I honour, respect and love Poe. An amazing and talented writer of Gothic poetry and fiction. Also, he was misunderstood. Yes, he was an alcoholic, but alcoholism is a disease. Rather than demonising the poor bloke as a madman, we should actually feel sorry for him and feel glad that alcoholism is so much better understood and supported in the western world today, even if it is far from perfect. We also need to all support more help and support for those affected and their families and friends (including animals). Speaking of which, Poe was a cat lover. As far as we know, he never really abused animals; the fictional unnamed narrator of “The Black Cat” is not the real Poe - he is just a fictional character. Also, about the whole marrying his 13 year old cousin thing, apparently, in the 1900’s, the legal age to marry was 12! 😮 😯 😱

After watching several of these Write Like videos, it is impossible not to conclude that kindred spirits are only to be found in authors; if only for our fondness of spirits.

You can smile... Although POE's manifest interests seem to be horror and mistery, his real concerns are, in their deepest underground, LANGUAGE and CULTURE. The first are just a wrapper for the second.

Great video, thank you very much , note to self(nts) watched all of it 23:11

Great start, born 1804 or 1809?

Sadly, throughout his life, death was all around him.

Genius !

How odd to use an edited picture of him smiling for the promotional photo!

Remember ..HELLO !! In old days you were NOT allowed to smile.

SOPHIE - Lili You know you don’t belong to us he said unto the child We found you poorly in the swamp deep within the mire Your eyes bright red by moonlight, grey blue before the fire We knew that you were different, a difference deep and wild And we were drawn by deepest love this pen cannot explain No thoughts could ever pass our minds of fleeing from the pain. - The pain of one so young and cold we took from death’s dark claws As you grew within our hovel, submissive, bright and smart A child, a girl with deep black curls, brown skin without a flaw We loved you more as time passed by and death called once again To take the man that you called Pa. You never shed a tear You watched the Moon, you understood as Nature made its claim. - I noticed then you hardly slept, in silent meditation deep Things would move before your stare, you never suffered ills You would sing verse you weren’t taught, draw creatures from their sleep And they would sing along with you, nightbirds, raccoons and frogs Until an orchestra of sound rose up so beautiful to hear Surprising to myself as well, I never suffered fear. - But when you grew past childhood, when blood began to flow You ventured nightly through the woods following the song That seemed to spring from all the trees, song I didn’t know When young men came along to call, they froze at your red eyes And went away not to return, then rumors began to grow Fear from all the Villagers, the stories, hate and cries. - One bright morning we were taken by a tap upon our door Standing there all dressed in brown, four girls of Sophie’s age They came inside and took her hand, outside a man on horse She knew them all, they took a draught, then all sat on the floor A chant began, rose to a scream, the sound was tempest worse They took her then, she bade Goodbye, her happiness I saw. - I live alone, shunned by all, inside my mind I know When Moonlight falls and nightbirds sing I feel that I am blessed She’s watching o’er my life and trials, she brings the sun and snow And as I age I feel her here when chairs and tables move A whisper low, a song I hear, the call of her pet crow. Blessed be.

The photo looks like somebody has taken Poe's face and has used the faceapp app in order to put the filter "smile" on it

Nevermore

Poe never smiled

Why did you post a Face App altered smiling pic, bro? It is weird

dont feel ok about the smiley photo. poe died around 1850 and the only photos of him would be tintypes in which no one is ever smiling due to the long exposures required to get the image. plus the 19th century people had dignity and didnt have the happy face disease that affects us moderns. that's it for what it's worth.

Alcohol allergy often comes with nbo

In a world Thats 0DD and strange Past/ or now Thing's yet still the Same, not ; mutch Change on The Ritch /& middle class Yes indeed People are interesting Neither less .

If he was born in 1804 how could he be 6 years old when they sailed to London in 1815 he would have been 9 years old🤔

Why did so many overdrink in these documentaries? To the point of ruining their lives, of killing themselves?

Not to mention the not so appealing dental picture of people of that era.

He turned to alcohol when he was grieving. They said he died of rabies.

Worst thumbnail in KZfaq history. Sorry, Mr. Poe! 😿

"(...) very poor", yet studied law. No, they were not very poor. They might have been poor, but certainly not very poor.

Pretty sure the cover photo of him smiling is photoshopped.

Wtf hes my great great grand father

Why did he want to marry a 12 year old?

🇦🇹 Who the hell is Edgar? 🇦🇹

Edgar Allan Poe was a literary imposter. He didn't wrote "The Raven," he merely claimed it in a kind of 19th-century "identity theft." The poem's premiere was submitted anonymously to "American Review" under the pseudonym "---- Quarles" by the true author, Mathew Franklin Whittier, younger brother of poet John Greenleaf Whittier. Poe, a critic for the New York "Evening Mirror," finding the poem in an advance copy of "American Review," scooped Mathew in his own paper by two days. Mathew had shared a copy of "The Raven" with Poe in early 1842, so Poe had a handwritten copy in his possession. This enabled him to convince his editor that he had permission to scoop "American Review"--but he mysteriously left the "Mirror" shortly afterwards (suggesting that he may have been fired for lying about it). It is the height of absurdity that the editor of a newly-launched monthly literary magazine like the "Review," would have given a daily newspaper this permission. The real author was not in a position to reveal his identity because of his anti-slavery work and connection with the Underground Railroad, and hence could not publicly defend himself. My paper, "Evidence that Edgar Allan Poe Stole 'The Raven' from Mathew Franklin Whittier," can be downloaded from the following link, or it can be read by searching for the paper's title in Academia.edu. www.ial.goldthread.com/MFW_The_Raven.pdf