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Edgar Allan Poe

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Portrait: Unknown author; Restored by Yann Forget and Adam Cuerden · Public domain

A round hand mirror reflects a small jester’s cap, with a brass ring beside it. — Original artwork

I have great faith in fools. My friends call it self-confidence.

Edgar Allan Poe

Life: 1809-1849
Occupations: poet, writer, essayist
Notable works: The Black Cat, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Murders in the Rue Morgue

Facts: Wikidata (CC0), as of 2026-07-09

Poe's quotable lines split between the poems ('All that we see or seem / Is but a dream within a dream') and a gothic aphorism industry that regularly hands him things he never wrote. He died at 40 with contested circumstances that flavored his afterlife: his literary executor Rufus Griswold wrote a hostile obituary that shaped -- and darkened -- Poe's popular image for a century.

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