Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849): en författare i tiden

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”Anxiety was his childhood bedfellow.”

”In his art as in his life, he fell in love with dying women.”

”He was a perpetual orphan in the world.”

Peter Ackroyd , Poe: A Life Cut Short (Chatto & Windus/Vintage, 2009, 170 s)