By Alex Ness
7 October, 2025
Remembering Poe on the Anniversary of his passing...
He was thought to have suffered mental illness, but if so, did it cause his status as a poet of wide range and dedication to his craft, or did he have the inspirations long before the mental illness and it was created despite mental illness. He lost his wife at a young age, he dedicated himself to work in an industry that respected and admired poetry, but had stopped funding it, stopped seeing it as the common tongue of the communities who read it. His family was torn by suffering and conflict. Poe's work was respected, but he was looked upon with less than admiration. America's poetic rebel was remarkably talented in the form of poetry as well as prose. As an editor, he was highly able to distinguish between shit or shineola. But he made enemies as an editor. His life was often misery, whatever the source. My personal respect for his writing, more for his determination and love of the written and spoken word.
Wiki about Edgar Allan Poe
Happy Anniversary of the death American poet, author, editor Edgar Allan Poe, who lived and died for his art and work.
January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849
Poe's work, and more curiously his personae were not universally praised, including by those in the past, the period shortly after his death, nor in the present. But he did have a fandom appreciated his new forms of poetry, new themes, and new subjects. It was absolutely different for nearly all readers. Poe's work were especially new for their era, not just different but the serious tone, the dedication to the subject matter's verisimilitude, meant that there were no cues for readers that this is a honest work.
The Fantasy oriented dark and weird horror themes, and esoteric supernatural concepts were all dismissed by some, as any author experiences but not for quality, the public viewed all poetry as meant to be solemn or for love and respectable subjects... Not the case with Poe. Like the musical work of the Beatles, he wanted to create something no one had read before. Every new work introduced a story that was bound to inspire fear, or deeper insights. Of all the changes that he brought to common interest were his detective fictional sagas.
He ranks highly as a favorite poet and author for me of his works. I've spent money on hardcover collections of his work. I even have a goal in the present of acquiring a bust statue of Poe.
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