Edgar Allan Poe's Accomplishments

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Of all the great literary geniuses, Edgar Allan Poe is the darkest, grittiest and most passionate of them all. The source of his writings is not that of mere imagination, but of a true sense of what it is like to have love, only to lose it and be driven to the brink of madness by grief and despair. Poe, like many great authors, related his works to his life; he depicted the most intense loves to the darkest depths of sorrow experienced by the human soul, both experiences that he knew all too well. A common recurrence in Poe's life was the death of a woman he loved and the depression that followed it. On that point it can be said that of all the women Poe loved, Virginia Clemm was his greatest love, “...we loved with a love that was more than