... to prove permanent. Edgar Allen Poe was a celebrated delinquent who became the saddest and strangest figure in American Literature. "Socially dislocated, emotionally starved, and torn in spirit." He kept no diaries, had no intimate friends, and confided in no one. Poe's loneliness, obsession with plagiarism and sensibility to criticism, constant need for money, threats of rash behavior, overweening pride, ... humiliating self-abasement, and his compulsive self-destruction all contributed to his caustic and corrosive behavior (Graham, Kevin pg. ... disease, "I have no pleasure in the st...

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