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*DISCUSSION: Edgar Allan Poe at Chautauqua's FREE History Comes Alive Festival
*DISCUSSIONS are NOT costumed performances as are the other festival events. They are an opportunity to get to know the performers and discover what they think about their characters.
Edgar Allan Poe was a creative and much admired and imitated author of many of America's most remembered poetry and fiction. With the writing of “The Raven,” Poe's talent became recognized nationwide. He toured the states giving literary reviews, poetry demonstrations and even scientific lectures.
But his great successes were punctuated by a tortuous personal life, especially after the early death of his wife at the age of 24 following her long struggle with tuberculosis.
Poe created the supernatural horror genre that we recognize today in the works of author H.P. Lovecraft and director Alfred Hitchcock. As the creator of the first detective story, the Mystery Writers of America named their annual awards of excellence “The Edgars” in Poe's honor.
Poe was never an ordinary hail-fellow-well-met. He was dark, moody, always looking for love and acceptance and talented beyond his peers. From his childhood to his death, he created wonderfully crafted poetry and memorable tales and now seems to those who study his life and works as if he were himself a character from one of his own stories.
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