Midnight Dreary: The Life and Times of Edgar Allan Poe
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Two days after Edgar Allan Poe died in a Baltimore hospital in 1849, a rival editor named Rufus Griswold published an obituary calling him a friendless, godless drunk — and then spent years afterward forging letters and doctoring the record to make the lie stick. That fabrication became the "e;official"e; Poe for the next century, bundled into the collected works Griswold controlled as his literar...
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Two days after Edgar Allan Poe died in a Baltimore hospital in 1849, a rival editor named Rufus Griswold published an obituary calling him a friendless, godless drunk — and then spent years afterward forging letters and doctoring the record to make the lie stick. That fabrication became the "e;official"e; Poe for the next century, bundled into the collected works Griswold controlled as his literar...
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