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The ending is interesting, touches on the feud between Griswold and Poe.

Poe had made the strategic mistake of dying before a man who hated him.

I'm glad I only paid $7 for this.

Now Harry Lee Poe is claiming Bernado Bertolucci's 2003 film The Dreamers was inspired by The Fall of the House of Usher.

I wrote a paper on this film, and Edgar Allan Poe never came up in my research. There's no source or citation for any of this stuff. I'm not saying it's not true, but this is starting to annoy me a little bit

I didn't realize how big of a deal "The Fall of the House of Usher" was -

Claude Debussy became obsessed with the story and spent the last thirty years of his life trying to write an opera based upon it

^This is where I think Harry's bias is coming out. I question using the word 'obsessed.' in reference to Debussy being inspired to write an opera.

Harry Lee Poe is making a big deal out of EAP using unreliable narrator in "The Fall of the House of Usher," but I'm wondering how unique of a literary device this really was in that time?

I'm tired of Harry Lee Poe telling me about Edgar Allan Poe and I simply want to read the letters, as a whole. Not little excerpts of them. That would be my main criticism of this.

This is interesting. I did previously have the impression Poe was a tortured soul who lived an isolated, lonely life and here are letters where Poe admits his poems containing horror are not his favorite, he just knows they sell.

This is classic stuff they teach authors. To sell books (or poems, in Poe's case) you gotta find the combination of writing commericial, but also including something original, of yourself in it

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Poe himself thought the poem Berenice "was in bad taste" yet he continued to write simillar tales of horror b/c he recognized other presses who published similar tales sold well.

(letter to White in 1834)

p.46 Poe's thoughts on poetry. Disagreed with Wordsworth