Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him.
Poe, Edgar Allan. "The Tell-Tale Heart." The Pioneer, vol. 1, no. 1, Jan. 1843, p. 29.
Following his orders from higher religious authorities, Lee led an attack on an emigrant wagon train and murdered all but 17 young children in what has become known as The Mountain Meadows Massacre. It is one of the worst scandals of Mormon history. Lee and the others thought that they were “defending” their religion, not unlike some Muslims who justify their terrorism.
Nathaniel Bacon had led a rebellion in Virginia and had routed the Governor’s troops and caused him to flee leaving control of Virginia to Bacon and his followers who were far more democratic and advanced. However Bacon succumbed to swamp fever, and his followers could not hold the colony together giving the Governor a chance to establish his authority. He then went on a vengeful reign of terror, executing all of Bacon’s followers he could get his hands on. With no danger to the authority of the Crown, King Charles felt that Berkeley had gone too far. The King’s father Charles I had been executed in the aftermath of the English Civil War, but he had executed far fewer than Berkely had done in Virginia.
Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. He is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States and of American literature as a whole, and he was one of the country's earliest practitioners of the short story. He is also generally considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre and is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction. Poe was the first well-known American writer to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career.
