[yarddog]

I recall reading a couple of things about Poe.

One, he is the most widely read U.S. author and two, his writings display the greatest vocabulary of any American author.

I can’t recall if there was any adjectives or modifiers included with those facts.

He also is credited with inventing the detective novel.

[massgopguy]

Isn’t Poe the reason their NFL team is called the Ravens?

[massgopguy]

Isn’t Poe the reason their NFL team is called the Ravens?

[massgopguy]

Isn’t Poe the reason their NFL team is called the Ravens?

[Borges]

He invented modern detective fiction but it was short stories. He was also a pioneer of what came to be called Science Fiction.

[Renderofveils]

...his writings display the greatest vocabulary of any American author.

Lovecraft would politely disagree.

There is a certain irony of the plans for a Poe museum ending up discarded in the gutter.

[Ohioan]

Poe was the most innovative author in the English language since Shakespeare. He did not just invent the detective story--not the novel;--he also was a pioneer in Science fiction; wrote burlesques as well as stories capturing the essence of obsession. He was best known here as America's greatest literary critic of the 19th Century.

He was also a solid Conservative, as note his comments on the British Utilitarians: Poe On Utilitarianism.

William Flax