Another Edgar Allan Poe

From adolescence to the grave, Poe lived a tormented existence — visited by ghosts of disappointed hopes, haunted by death in love, by stupidity, by the almost madness of many of his gestures, by the vain expectation of success, security and happiness. In an indifferent world that valued money more than poetry, he found solace only in the annihilation of himself.

This is how Philip Lindsay defines Edgar Allan Poe in his biography of the American writer. From his description emerges the portrait of a sad and hallucinated man, perpetually dismayed, unable to flashes of joy. This is, in…