Brett Gregory reads Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Tell-Tale Heart' from 1843.
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Born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1809, Edgar Allan Poe, an chronic alcoholic, was rumoured to have died of heart failure in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1849.
He was also a sensational short story writer, a powerful poet and a critic of the highest order. His tale ‘The Murders in the Rue Morgue’ from 1841, for instance, was a precursor to the modern detective story and, in turn, his musically macabre poem, ‘The Raven’, from 1845 is recognised as a touchstone of US national literature.
Influenced by English Romantic poets such as John Keats, Percy Shelley and Samuel Coleridge, Poe would entwine factual material with dark fantasy and supernatural horror, and thus his literary persona, one could say, enjoyed a split personality: an idealist and a visionary maddened by the grotesque and the perverse.
‘The Tell-Tale Heart’ from 1843 is one of his most memorable short stories.
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