Where is the lesson on run-on sentences that people always use incorrectly and is even common in legal documents written by smart people that passed a bar exam following degree achievments in Ivy League schools?
(A period here and there is a good thing. But it sometimes make the sentences short and crabby.)
And can somebody PLEASE invent a time machine so I can go back and tell Edgar Allen Poe to put some paragraphs in his writing? EGAD!
That being said, I absolutely love his writing. It's not so much his subject matter that captures my imagination but his command of the English language. (That is why I love British literature - even the modern stuff, like http://www.thingsmygirlfriendandihavearguedabout.com/.