... personal appearance, Edgar Allen Poe was a quiet, shy-looking, but handsome man; he was slightly built, and was five feet, eight inches in height. His mouth was considered beautiful. His eyes, with long dark lashes, were hazel-gray. Poe's brain, on the other hand, worked on a different, more darker, wavelength than others. Poe made many contributions to Western Literature. In fact, he wrote nearly seventy ... followed. Whenever he begged for hope, only stern despair returned instead of the sweet hope he dared adjure.""(62-65). The raven sadly answered, "Never- nevermore-(66). But the ra...

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