Terrific documentary, and it's refreshing not to have background mood music poured like a "sauce" over everything

@TheStockwell

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for saying that! It's as if everyone who uploads any sort of video thinks it has to have non-stop music on it. It's ladled over news reports, people giving lectures on history and art, videos from Bernie Sanders and other public figures, and usually at the same volume as the narrator, so it's hard to focus or even hear what's being said. Ken Burns and Stanley Kubrick knew how to use music and when to just let the words be heard. These days, everybody wants to be the next Christopher Nolan. They often succeed - but not in a good way. 🙄

@autumn5852

2 жыл бұрын

We’re all different, I don’t like listening to videos without background music, I don’t know if that’s due to having adhd but if there’s no music, it’s like my brain switches off

@norituk9824

2 жыл бұрын

@@autumn5852 we're all different, as you say. I don't usually mind background music if it's quiet, but sometimes it's so loud you can hardly hear the narration, and then I can't watch it. So the above video is a pleasant change.

Edgar Allan still continues to be one of my top favourite writers; and America still till this day has no other writer that surpassed his genius.

@reubenisaac702

5 ай бұрын

What about that dude who wrote those Harry Potter movies? It was all vampires vs werewolves, and that dude said "beam me up Scotty". Frodo was my favorite.

I’m a huge lifelong Poe fan. This was an excellent video.

Thank you for this documentary. I'm related to Edgar Allan Poe. My mother and grandmother told me that we are related to his mother's side of the family. It's nice to look back at a little bit of my family's past.

@AuthorDocumentaries

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome and that is awesome.

@sylviaowega3839

9 ай бұрын

I greatly envy you being related to this great man is genius.

@ralfxephon1

7 ай бұрын

That IS just so AMAZING !!

Thank you so much for this in-depth video!! USA

Mr. Poe ist always important, always loved, always remembered and never alone.

🪶 Excellent 🪶

He was born in 1809, not 1804, as your opening frame indicates.

Great storyteller on Edgar Allan Poe. You contribute to the success of this video.

I have been to the museum in Richmond, though it has been a minute...this was a refreshing reminder of his tortured talents. Thank you for producing this documentary.

thank you for sourcing and putting up these author docus...liked and subbed

Poe continues to be an unsurpassed writer, and he will be for a very long time to come 🤘

Absolutely an achingly beautiful documentary .. and so meaningful to me .. Edgar Allen Poe is my favorite author and poet .. as he was my mother's before me .. Indeed, she loved him so much that she named me, her firstborn, Virginia ., in honor of Edgar's beloved wife .. What I found most intriguing about this documentary is the lack of background music .. the narrator's clear voice is well modulated and easily heard ., and so lovely to listen to ., Also the illustrations and photographs were beautiful and contributed much to the enjoyment of this video .. Thank you so very much for posting this ,, well appreciated it is indeed❣ Jen999💙

What a sad life he led, life was so much harder back then it seems, and shorter. Thank you again for a wonderful story

@TJ-kk5zf

2 жыл бұрын

Being mentally and emotionally ill was not fun back then.

Sad story. Great writer. A lesson for all of us.

Thanks very much for the video. Well written and well read I give you 5 stars. I learned quite a bit about old Poe , things that I thought I already knew. Well done.

Poe's work reflected the dark romanticism & poetic drama of his life

I can't be the only one uncomfortable by a smiling Poe portrait.

Quoth the Raven: Nevermore

Seeing that thumbnail with Edgar Allen Poe smiling is seriously a strange and jarring experience.

outstanding....

❤his story as a struggling writer. But he never gave up.

Thank you for this documentary! Extremely well done!!! 💕

Terrific documentary - I didn't want to hear the sad history as one tragedy after the next befell the hero. Edgar Allan Poe - proud, towering literary figure had little more than a chance to survive success through self destructive disorder. EAP, RIP, the work is superb and the personal story is heartbreaking.

Very well done. Thank you!!

One of the more insightful and original videos about Poe. Thanks for the good, fresh work.

This series of documentaries is absolutely great.

Composers such as myself have found his literary work as prime source material for solo and chorus works. The sheer fantastical and dramatic elements of his life and work are rich with creativity and fervor of imagination….RIP Edgar.

@bobsquires4521

Жыл бұрын

I know that Alan Parsons Project had an FM hit on the LP 'Tales of Mystery and Imagination.' The song was based on the poem "To One in Paradise," reading some of the poem near the end of the song, he seems to misquote "..are where thy 'dark' eye glances," the original poem being '..where thy grey eye glances' either way, it's such a splendid poem and the song is dreamy and gorgeous. I suspect AEP would have heartily approved. It's all for the love of Edgar Allan Poe. What are the 'solo and chorus works' that you've mentioned? I'd be really eager to have a listen.

Wow! What a documentary! Well researched & well told. Thank you, thank you very much for this. He always seemed an enigma to me but you brought his life to the front through this amazing work of art.

❤ this story of a struggling writer.but he never gave up On his dream as a writer. Dr.tyrone of Chester PA.

Excelent audio.

Thank you.

Great documentary. Both the work and life of Edgar Allan Poe is very interesting and curious 🥰📚🧐

This was a very well made documentary. So many new details that i never knew.

Love poe ❤❤❤❤

My family were interconnected with the Poes. My family the Ushers were also actors as Poe's were. Noble Luke Usher and Harriet L'estrange Usher. They traveled in the same circles and actors guilds. Harriet and Luke had 2 children in which Poe got his idea of the Fall of the House of Usher from. Like Poe's parents the Ushers too died young and close in the same years. Leaving their 2 children orphaned too. The Curfew showed a Mr Usher which I found interesting and delighted to see ☺

Namaste👋💯🤗💝🙏✨💫🌟😘😍💞

I don't think I like John Allen. He was rude and arrogant. Poe was awesome. He was a person who did not work at strenous jobs. He always wrote well. His step father was a jerk. I always felt sorry for Edgar. What Allen did to Poe's girlfriend was just wrong. Poe should not have sabotaged his Army career. One must make choices, some are not always the best ones.

There persist some biographical errors of the Poe story. First, Poe was never "adopted" at law, but merely fostered in the tradition of the Scottish Highlands. Second, we have learned and documented in our own Poe Biography that both John Allan and Dr. MacKinzie were "family" of the Allans and Poes in Ayrshire, Scotland. Our 885 page, 2 volume biography published in 2013 is with the Poe Museum, Richmond, Virginia, the United States Military Academy, West Point Library, N.Y., and others. Robert D. Brill, M.A., J.D., former Police Officer and Detective, Sacramento, California.

I honour, respect and love Poe. An amazing and talented writer of Gothic poetry and fiction. Also, he was misunderstood. Yes, he was an alcoholic, but alcoholism is a disease. Rather than demonising the poor bloke as a madman, we should actually feel sorry for him and feel glad that alcoholism is so much better understood and supported in the western world today, even if it is far from perfect. We also need to all support more help and support for those affected and their families and friends (including animals). Speaking of which, Poe was a cat lover. As far as we know, he never really abused animals; the fictional unnamed narrator of “The Black Cat” is not the real Poe - he is just a fictional character. Also, about the whole marrying his 13 year old cousin thing, apparently, in the 1900’s, the legal age to marry was 12! 😮 😯 😱

After watching several of these Write Like videos, it is impossible not to conclude that kindred spirits are only to be found in authors; if only for our fondness of spirits.

Incredibly tragic life story 🥺 his mother died when he was so young. The foster parents didn’t really live him enough, he chose his own children over him. He was ignored when his foster parents died he got nothing. He struggled financially 💰 and mentally 🍷 He wrote from his traumatised mind. 🥺 He loved & lost and lost his way so badly… Brilliant in his writings, he did well. He kept messing up 🫣 When Virginia died he lost it completely affairs, alcohol, 🤯 He was a mind mess. 🥺

Great video, thank you very much , note to self(nts) watched all of it 23:11

Genius !

Great start, born 1804 or 1809?

@TigerzLionzPistonzWingz

2 жыл бұрын

1809

Sadly, throughout his life, death was all around him.

Nevermore

Remember ..HELLO !! In old days you were NOT allowed to smile.

How odd to use an edited picture of him smiling for the promotional photo!

The photo looks like somebody has taken Poe's face and has used the faceapp app in order to put the filter "smile" on it

SOPHIE - Lili You know you don’t belong to us he said unto the child We found you poorly in the swamp deep within the mire Your eyes bright red by moonlight, grey blue before the fire We knew that you were different, a difference deep and wild And we were drawn by deepest love this pen cannot explain No thoughts could ever pass our minds of fleeing from the pain. - The pain of one so young and cold we took from death’s dark claws As you grew within our hovel, submissive, bright and smart A child, a girl with deep black curls, brown skin without a flaw We loved you more as time passed by and death called once again To take the man that you called Pa. You never shed a tear You watched the Moon, you understood as Nature made its claim. - I noticed then you hardly slept, in silent meditation deep Things would move before your stare, you never suffered ills You would sing verse you weren’t taught, draw creatures from their sleep And they would sing along with you, nightbirds, raccoons and frogs Until an orchestra of sound rose up so beautiful to hear Surprising to myself as well, I never suffered fear. - But when you grew past childhood, when blood began to flow You ventured nightly through the woods following the song That seemed to spring from all the trees, song I didn’t know When young men came along to call, they froze at your red eyes And went away not to return, then rumors began to grow Fear from all the Villagers, the stories, hate and cries. - One bright morning we were taken by a tap upon our door Standing there all dressed in brown, four girls of Sophie’s age They came inside and took her hand, outside a man on horse She knew them all, they took a draught, then all sat on the floor A chant began, rose to a scream, the sound was tempest worse They took her then, she bade Goodbye, her happiness I saw. - I live alone, shunned by all, inside my mind I know When Moonlight falls and nightbirds sing I feel that I am blessed She’s watching o’er my life and trials, she brings the sun and snow And as I age I feel her here when chairs and tables move A whisper low, a song I hear, the call of her pet crow. Blessed be.

Poe never smiled

dont feel ok about the smiley photo. poe died around 1850 and the only photos of him would be tintypes in which no one is ever smiling due to the long exposures required to get the image. plus the 19th century people had dignity and didnt have the happy face disease that affects us moderns. that's it for what it's worth.

@michaelguerrieri3486

Жыл бұрын

1849

@timothysmith8667

Жыл бұрын

Same .

@alinapopescu872

9 ай бұрын

I agree with the diagnostic of "happy face disease."

@Wolfishh

6 ай бұрын

Hahah Emo - ppl who dont smile, when they have a good life just suck

Why did you post a Face App altered smiling pic, bro? It is weird

Alcohol allergy often comes with nbo

@jenrutherford6690

2 жыл бұрын

What is nbo

In a world Thats 0DD and strange Past/ or now Thing's yet still the Same, not ; mutch Change on The Ritch /& middle class Yes indeed People are interesting Neither less .

If he was born in 1804 how could he be 6 years old when they sailed to London in 1815 he would have been 9 years old🤔

He turned to alcohol when he was grieving. They said he died of rabies.

Why did so many overdrink in these documentaries? To the point of ruining their lives, of killing themselves?

Not to mention the not so appealing dental picture of people of that era.

Worst thumbnail in KZread history. Sorry, Mr. Poe! 😿

Pretty sure the cover photo of him smiling is photoshopped.

"(...) very poor", yet studied law. No, they were not very poor. They might have been poor, but certainly not very poor.

Wtf hes my great great grand father

🇦🇹 Who the hell is Edgar? 🇦🇹

@sushmaselvaraj

Жыл бұрын

Yo mama

Why did he want to marry a 12 year old?

Edgar Allan Poe was a literary imposter. He didn't wrote "The Raven," he merely claimed it in a kind of 19th-century "identity theft." The poem's premiere was submitted anonymously to "American Review" under the pseudonym "---- Quarles" by the true author, Mathew Franklin Whittier, younger brother of poet John Greenleaf Whittier. Poe, a critic for the New York "Evening Mirror," finding the poem in an advance copy of "American Review," scooped Mathew in his own paper by two days. Mathew had shared a copy of "The Raven" with Poe in early 1842, so Poe had a handwritten copy in his possession. This enabled him to convince his editor that he had permission to scoop "American Review"--but he mysteriously left the "Mirror" shortly afterwards (suggesting that he may have been fired for lying about it). It is the height of absurdity that the editor of a newly-launched monthly literary magazine like the "Review," would have given a daily newspaper this permission. The real author was not in a position to reveal his identity because of his anti-slavery work and connection with the Underground Railroad, and hence could not publicly defend himself. My paper, "Evidence that Edgar Allan Poe Stole 'The Raven' from Mathew Franklin Whittier," can be downloaded from the following link, or it can be read by searching for the paper's title in Academia.edu. www.ial.goldthread.com/MFW_The_Raven.pdf

@ariesista

2 жыл бұрын

Seems most everything I was taught was a lie.😔

@patriciajrs46

2 жыл бұрын

So many things seem to twist history. I still admire his writing and his leterary criticism. So, thanks anyway.

@ariesista

2 жыл бұрын

@@patriciajrs46 I agree!

@cg9612

2 жыл бұрын

Interesting.

@TuttleCapt

2 жыл бұрын

I love satire, too!