articles.baltimoresun.com — Menacing ravens, peering eyes, black cats and rats, ominous bells, violent eddies - imagery that fueled many a text by Edgar Allan Poe, and generated a good deal of art. For the bicentennial commemoration of the author's birth, the Baltimore Museum of Art has put together a dynamic collection of works directly or seemingly inspired by the author.
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xephoniaOct 30, 2009
If you're going to pay tribute to an author, at least spell his name correctly. It's even in the headline of the article you linked.Edgar Allan Poe
Closed AccountOct 30, 2009
Poe was a very good poet, but his stories never impressed me. Read Lovecraft for scary s**t.
deserttripperOct 30, 2009
True genius: this excerpt from Poe's "Marginalia," which was spoken by Orson Welles as an intro to the 1987 remake of Alan Parsons Project's "Tales of Mystery and Imagination," which features musical interpretations of several of Poe's most famous works. I can only dream of crafting such an exquisite passage:"For my own part, I have never had a thought which I could not set down in words with even more distinctness than that with which I conceived it....There is, however, a class of fancies of exquisite delicacy which are not thoughts, and to which as yet I have found it absolutely impossible to adapt to language. These fancies arise in the soul (alas, how rarely!) only at epochs of most intense tranquility--when the bodily and mental health are in perfection--and at those mere points of time where the confines of the waking world blend with the world of dreams.....And so, I captured this fancy, where all that we see, or seem, is but a dream within a dream."