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Edgar Allan Poe
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Edgar Allan Poe was the father of the modern detective story. Perhaps, even a precursor to science fiction writing. He was also a poet, a critic, a journalist, and a writer of horror tales, whose appeal has been broad enough to encompass an audience
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His wife then could be said to have eased the numerous sorrows that inflicted Poe. There were, however, other issues in the author's life that gave him an affinity for the strongest pain killer known to humanity as well as predisposition to take it
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of both children and adults, especially the French. To appeal to children and adults is a major accomplishment
that few writers in the history of letters achieve. Without writing children's stories and adult literature separately, Poe managed to do this
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as prolifically as he wrote.
Edgar Allan Poe was, of course, as we all know, an orphan. Throughout
his life, he was impecunious. His writing was not well-received.
The type of writing he did, a considerable amount of which was profoundly
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simultaneously in each tale, in each poem, in each piece. Quite a feat! He is to horror what Shakespeare is to drama. A god. To paraphrase Truman Capote speaking about himself, Edgar Allan Poe was an orphan drug addict, a pervert...a genius.
It is possible, in fact, highly likely, that he used morphine and, subsequently, became addicted to it because of the death of his nymphet wife. He used morphine to self-medicate his grief.
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disturbing on a visceral level that was compounded by its perspicacious investigation into abnormal elements of the human psyche, undoubtedly took a toll on his peace of mind, although to some extent it's reasonable to belief that the events of his life and his manic depression served as an initial impetus for the variety of work he produced.
Like the other pioneers of American literature: Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allan Poe was a manic depression.
None of them...
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