How Edgar Allan Poe became the darling of the maligned and misunderstood
- Written by Scott Peeples, Professor of English, College of Charleston
Could the pugnacious writer ever have imagined that he would one day become a cult hero?Nick Lehr/The Conversation via DALL-E 2, CC BY-SAEdgar Allan Poe, who would have turned 214 years old on Jan. 19, 2023, remains one of the world’s most recognizable and popular literary figures.
His face – with its sunken eyes, enormous forehead and...




