who was edgar allan poe???
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Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American poet, short story writer, editor, critic and one of the leaders of the American Romantics. He is best known for his tales of the macabre and his poems, as well as being one of the early practitioners of the short story and a progenitor of detective fiction, as well as crime fiction in the United States. He is also often credited with inventing the gothic fiction story and contributing to narrative forms of the emergent science fiction genre.[1] Poe died at the age of 40. The cause of his death is a mystery, although it is well-known that he struggled with alcohol problems; it has also been alleged that he had a drug problem. Some say he died of tuberculosis, as so many people did in his time. His exact burial location is also a source of controversy.
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Do a google search on poets.  Is there a specific one you're looking for?\n\nEdgar Allan Poe\n\nRobert Frost\n\nTry this site:\n\nhttp://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets.htm
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Two reasons: 1) Edgar Allan Poe lived in Maryland and wrote the poem "The Raven", and 2) the same reason teams in Arizona, Atlanta, Philadelphia, and Seattle are named for birds
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Charles Babbage\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Babbage
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that would DEFINATLY  be Robert Fitzgerald, hes the best i think. i loved loved both the iliad and the odyssey by him, they're not like college this and this happened at all, almost fiction BUT ITS NOT. translations of homer's and hes awsome too. id really reccomend them. FITZGERALD ROCKS MY SOCKS!
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He sure led an interesting life:\n\nhttp://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/Babbage.html
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Salvador Dali...  No questions asked (except for the one you asked).  He's an exceptional artist and his painting can be read in so many different ways. \n\np.s. great question!
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Edgar Allan Poe "Eldorado" (1849):\n"Gaily bedight,\nA gallant knight,\nIn sunshine and in shadow,\nHad journeyed long,\nSinging a song,\nIn search of Eldorado.\n\nBut he grew old--\nThis knight so bold--\nAnd o'er his heart a shadow\nFell as he found\nNo spot of ground\nThat looked like Eldorado.\n\nAnd, as his strength\nFailed him at length,\nHe met a pilgrim shadow--\n"Shadow," said he,\n"Where can it be--\nThis land of Eldorado?"\n\n"Over the Mountains\nOf the Moon,\nDown the Valley of the Shadow,\nRide, boldly ride."\nThe shade replied,--\n"If you seek for Eldorado."
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Poe wrote on both. Otherwise.... \n\n(http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a5_266.html )
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Language is awesome. Indeed it can make you feel anything. And basically, I don't agree with you that language today is unimaginative. Maybe some people talk or write without too much 'imagination', but if you look well, you will find beautiful, powerful and creative texts all over the place. Of course not everyone can Poe, but that doesn't mean nobody can. Don't lose your faith in language, mate. That's a waste.
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Edgar Allan Poe, Writer \n\nBorn: 19 January 1809 \nBirthplace: Boston, Massachusetts \nDied: 7 October 1849 \nBest Known As: Author of "The Raven" \nEdgar Allan Poe's classic poem "The Raven" cemented his reputation as a black-feathered literary master of the macabre. In the late 1820s and early 1830s Poe mixed poetry with work as a soldier in the U.S. Army. He was dismissed from West Point and moved to Baltimore, Maryland, where he began writing prose. Throughout the 1830s and 1840s Poe worked on various magazines in Richmond, Philadelphia and New York, and also published creepy short stories and poems, including "The Purloined Letter," "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "The Cask of Amontillado." His story The Murders in the Rue Morgue is widely considered to be the first modern detective story, with Poe the forerunner of later masters of the craft like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie. Never in robust health, and a heavy drinker into the bargain, Poe died under mysterious circumstances at age 40 after visiting Virginia to lecture. He was found languishing on the street in Baltimore and taken unconscious to a local hospital, where he died.\n\nPoe's detective in The Murders in the Rue Morgue was named C. Auguste Dupin... Baltimore's National Football League team, the Ravens, is named in whimsical tribute to Poe's famous poem... Since the 100th anniversary of Poe's death in 1949, an anonymous visitor has come to Poe's grave each year on the writer's birthday, leaving three roses and a bottle of cognac. By tradition no one attempts to follow the "Poe Toaster" and his identity remains unknown. However, it is presumed others have taken over for the original visitor... Poe wrote an 1836 essay unmasking the chess-playing automaton The Turk as a human-powered fraud.
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not sure http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761559994/Detective_Story.html http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/murder/peopleevents/e_novel.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detective_fiction http://www.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=267 http://www.funtrivia.com/ask.cfm?action=details&qnid=1506 ------------------------- The First Detective Story\nMonsieur C. Auguste Dupin, a Frenchman of unusually acute -- if almost "diseased" -- intelligence, informs the police that an orangutan committed a seemingly unsolvable murder. Thus is born, in Edgar Allan Poe's The Murders in the Rue Morgue, the world's first sleuth, and the first story of detective fiction. Poe's focus on the gruesome nature of crimes -- and the intellectual triumph in their solution -- opened a door for readers to approach their fears and fascinations about crime and death
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Bernard Rosenberg / cultural historian / post-modernist\n-----------------\nHenry Louis Mencken (September 12, 1880 – January 29, 1956), better known as H. L. Mencken, was a twentieth century journalist, satirist and social critic, a cynic and a freethinker, known as the "Sage of Baltimore" and the "American Nietzsche". He is often regarded as one of the most influential American writers of the early 20th century. At one point in his career he was America's favorite pundit and literary critic at the same time.
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Gabriel Alomar (Palma de Mallorca 1873, Cairo 1941) is a poet, essayist, and educator of the early twentieth century in Spain. He was an active leftist libertarian, chiefly in Barcelona and the other Catalan-speaking regions, from the first years of the 20th century until his death from pneumonia in exile.\n\nRamon Llull (1235 – June 29, 1315) (sometimes Raymond Lully or in Latin Raimundus or Raymundus Lullus) was a writer and philosopher born into a wealthy family in Palma, Majorca, in the Balearic Islands, now part of Spain. He wrote the first major work of Catalan language literature. Recently surfaced manuscripts show him to have anticipated by several centuries prominent work on elections theory. He is sometimes considered a pioneer of computation theory.\n\nCaterina Mieras (b. in Mallorca. 5 April 1947) holds a degree in Medicine and Surgery from UB. She also is Teacher at the Teacher Training School of the Balearic Islands and reached an Upper Grade in piano from the Professional Conservatory of Music of Valencia.
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The only one I can think of off the top of my head is Joseph Conrad, although I am sure there are others.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Conrad
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How about Gary William Crawford?\n\nHe's American (although from the South, rather than New England) and he writes dark (maybe even Gothic) poetry and short fiction.
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Edgar Allan Poe is considered the "father" of the mystery story genre. Among his best stories are "The Gold Bug," "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," "The Mystery of Marie Roget," "The Purloined Letter," and "The Black Cat." He also was a master of horror stories such as "The Pit and the Pendulum," "The Tell Tale Heart," "The Fall of the House of Usher," and "The Cask of the Amontillado." Enjoy his stories. He is amonjg the greatest of all American writers.