“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.” - Edgar Allan Poe, Letter to George W. Eveleth Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) was an American poet, au

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.” - Edgar Allan Poe, Letter to George W. Eveleth Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) was an American poet, author, and literary critic whose dark imagination left a lasting mark on American literature. Born in Boston and orphaned before he was three…