19, 1809, Poe lived a “productive but dismal” 40 years. At least his widely ridiculed foray into theoretical physics brought in $14.īritish novelist Peter Ackroyd has produced a concise new life of Poe “just in time” to celebrate the doomed bard’s 200th birthday, said Heller McAlpin in The Christian Science Monitor. One of those poems, “The Raven,” made him a household name in his brief lifetime but earned him all of $9. As a writer of fiction, he not only invented the detective story but also produced a handful of chilling narrative poems and horror stories that are still widely read today. As a cosmologist, Poe was a laughingstock. Because Poe is not well known for his sense of humor, his remark is often interpreted as a wild misreading of his true cultural contributions. One year before his death, Edgar Allan Poe published a treatise on the origins and destiny of the universe, which predicted his work would finally be appreciated around A.D.
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