Clearly, Poe valued exercising his noodle on more than his wondrous fiction and poetry.
Thanks, Mike, for this very interesting excursion.................
Unfortunately he died at age 40 under mysterious(?) circumstances. Then one of his literary rivals attempted, unsuccessfully, to ruin his reputation by writing a fake obituary under an assumed name and then a biography full of outright lies about the man.
Some people thing Poe was poisoned because his Death certificate disappeared and all records of his autopsy.
We will find out One Day................