Well, his last words were a prayer to Jesus.
I read that it took him five years to write The Raven.
Poe, strangely, was ambushed all most from the beginning of his life and sometimes never knew who was doing it.
A biographer wrote about him and savagely lied about him and it marred his reputation until the lies were finally discovered after Poe’s death.
It is somehow gratifying to know that Poe went after the pompous, insufferable Ralph Waldo Emerson.
God has purposes above our ken. It was necessary in His plan for Poe to be, macabre though his expressed sentiments were. One needs to watch one’s life if one is a believer, because it may be the more scandalous things that are remembered.
He also accused Longfellow of plagerism. Longfellow never acknowledged, he being in my belief a stand-up guy.