Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.
Poe, Edgar Allan. "The Raven." The American Review: A Whig Journal of Politics, Literature, Art and Science, vol. 1, no. 2, Wiley and Putnam, Feb. 1845, p. 143.
France with the largest Army in the world, did not even hold out against the Germans as long as tiny Norway had done. The military under the Vichy collaborationist government was even worse as many of the few true patriots had gone underground to form a French “resistance.”
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.
