Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe

A community portal about Edgar Allan Poe with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Edgar Allan Poe was an American poet, short story writer, editor, critic and one of the leaders of the American Romantic Movement. Best... [more]

A community portal about Edgar Allan Poe with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Edgar Allan Poe was an American poet, short story writer, editor, critic and one of the leaders of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of the macabre, Poe was one of the early American practitioners of the short story and a progenitor of detective fiction and crime fiction. He is also credited with contributing to the emergent science fiction genre. Poe died at the age of 40. The cause of his death is undetermined and has been attributed to alcohol, drugs, cholera, rabies, and other agents.

A poem, retelling Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven", whose words -- 740 in count -- give the single digits of the number Pi: a word of length n denotes the digit n.  
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