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This one will be…brief. Heh. <\/p>\n

I’ve already read one book<\/a> this year that could be partially categorized as a biography of Edgar Allan Poe. However, when I saw Peter Ackroyd’s rather diminutive biography<\/a> on one of my favorite authors, tucked away on a shelf at the library, I decided in that instant that I needed to read yet another one. <\/p>\n

Admittedly, I didn’t really learn much from Ackroyd’s telling of Poe’s upsetting life and death. And it is upsetting. Just like so many of his macabre tales, his was a tortured soul. Some of it was external, but much of his torment sprang from demons of an internal sickness that raged within him until the very end. <\/p>\n

If you’ve never read a biography on Mr. Poe, then I would highly recommend this one. It’s a bit more thorough than my previous Poe-related read this year (although that one is holistically more interesting) and it never does Poe the dishonor of sugar-coating any aspect of his life. However, if you have read anything on Poe, you, too, might find this to be simply an exercise in revisiting already known information in a well-researched and well-written way. <\/p>\n

Final Verdict:<\/strong> It was an interesting refresher course on Poe’s life that I will now gladly return to the library. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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