It's on ze wireless zis week. BBC Radio 7 has at least done its share of Poe pushing to mark the poor chap's bicentenary. Nobody else seems to have paid much attention. Poe may be a minor writer, but when I was a young chap it seemed that virtually every literary anniversary got a right old hoohah in the media. Post-literate culture? Maybe.
Ah well, here's a bit of fun from not one, but two admirers of Edgar.
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I live in the general vicinity of Baltimore, USA, and you'll be glad to hear that there has been a lot of Poe-related activity inspired by the anniversary: readings and portrayals, tours, and later in the year his funeral procession will be reenacted.
I've just read further down (or up?) your blog to the previous entry and its link to the story of the battle for Poe. Quite true. Baltimore does hold a few of the key distinctions, but certainly not all.
'Edgar Allan Poe ho ho ho did it,
But he did in verse'
I will look forward to interweb images of his funeral procession. Odd, but true.
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