Edgar Allan Poe, who would have turned 214 years old Jan. 19, remains one of the world’s most recognizable literary figures. But is his appeal less about the power and complexity of his prose, and more about the view of him as a perennial underdog?
Edgar Allan Poe, who would have turned 214 years old on Jan. 19, 2023, remains one of the world’s most recognizable and popular literary figures.
But as a Poe scholar, I sometimes wonder whether Poe’s appeal is less about the power and complexity of his prose and more about an attraction to the idea of Poe. Could the pugnacious writer ever have imagined that he would one day become a cult hero? Nick Lehr/The Conversation via DALL-E 2, CC BY-SA Rufus W. Griswold penned the first draft of Poe’s life and legacy. raveler1116/DigitalVision Vectors via Getty Images
Poe’s underdog story takes offBy the turn of the 20th century, the stage was set for Poe to be embraced as the perennial underdog. And Poe often did appear on stage around this time, as the subject of several biographical melodramas that depicted him as a tragic figure whose lack of success had more to do with a hostile cultural and publishing environment than his own failings.
In real life, while an early draft of “The Raven” was declined by one editor, Poe had no trouble selling the poem, and it was an immediate sensation.
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