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Poe Toaster: For 75 years a mysterious man visited Edgar Allan Poe’s grave, poured himself a glass of cognac, and toasted the great writer
If Edgar Allan Poe were still alive, he would have celebrated his 209th birthday on January 19 of 2018.
Sadly, Poe died under mysterious circumstances on October 7, 1849, aged only 40.
Edgar Allan Poe is most certainly a major figure in world literature. For starters, he is the man who is said to have invented both the detective story and the horror genre.
He has been widely known as the “architect” of the modern short story, with an influence that undoubtedly went beyond American literature and has been now deeply encoded into the global cultural DNA. Poe’s imaginative storytelling substantially influenced the French Symbolists who initiated the Poe cult in Europe, which soon made a great impact on all the major “isms” of the time in Europe.
Poe was a very prolific author; he left behind a remarkable legacy of exceptional stories and poems th