I was pretty young when I discovered Poe. My aunt had given me what was basically The Great Books rewritten for the under-10 crowd. One of the volumes was a collection of Poe stories. "The Fall of the House of Usher" didn't do much for me--probably because the editors cut out all the stuff with all the subtext--but "The Cask of Amontillado" stuck with me.
I do have to confess that while "The Raven" is one of my favorite poems, it's not number one on my list. That would be "Eldorado." (http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Eldorado)
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Date: 2009-01-20 04:48 pm (UTC)I quite frightened my father with my first enthusiastic obsession with Poe.
"The pen falls powerless from my shivering hand..."
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Date: 2009-01-20 06:43 pm (UTC)I do have to confess that while "The Raven" is one of my favorite poems, it's not number one on my list. That would be "Eldorado." (http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Eldorado)
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Date: 2009-01-22 08:23 pm (UTC)no subject
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