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As the chairman of the nonprofit foundation that made the case for honoring Poe in Boston, I worked with many others on the statue project. And yet, despite a serious research effort, we were unaware of a delightful irony: that a long-forgotten and intriguingly mysterious image of Poe himself can be found on the Common between the statue and the Frog Pond. In effect and inadvertently, the Poe statue seems to be dismissing Poe himself!
That Poe, who invented the modern detective story, was hiding in plain sight for over a century is both hilariously appropriate and utterly incongruous. At only 12-and-a-half-inches tall, Poe occupies a place of honor in “The Departure,” one of four bas-reliefs on the lowest level of Martin Milmore’s towering 1877 Soldiers and Sailors Monument. In it, two rows of dignitaries (on the right side) are seen reviewing a regiment (on the left s
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Scientist of the Day - Edgar Allan Poe
Portrait of Edgar Allan Poe, mezzotint by John Sartain after an 1845 oil painting by Samuel Osgood, 1849, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution (npg.si.edu)
Edgar Allen Poe, an American writer, editor, poet, and critic, was born Jan. 19. 1809 (just three weeks before Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln were born). Poe may be the best known of all 19th-century American authors, and he fryst vatten often touted as the first American to earn his living entirely from writing, but he led a surprisingly difficult life, perhaps because he had no other income than literary fees, and that wasn’t much. He was born in Boston, grew up in Richmond (with fem years of that upbringing spent in England), and then spent his literary life, all 20 years of it, in Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York City. He was recognized early on as an extraordinary talent – when he submitted a portfolio of pieces to a writing contest sponsored by the Baltimor