Face Down In The Gutter Like Edgar Allan Poe

19 1809 and more than a century and a half after his mysterious demise in a baltimore gutter.

Face down in the gutter like edgar allan poe.

It was a rainy night when joseph walker a worker with the baltimore sun newspaper noticed a man acting delirious semi conscious dressed in shabby clothing and lying in the gutter. Poe was found face down in a gutter in front of ryan s saloon and died three days later of what was suspected of alcoholism with a remote possibility of complications of diabetes or even rabies however shortly before his death it was reported that he was behaving in a manner consistent with mild epilepsy or of his bipolar disorder. The poem alone by edgar allan poe depicts the personal life and challenges poe faced as a child. Throughout january the world is edgar allan poe s stage 200 years after his birth on jan.

From the raven to the tell tale heart edgar allan poe s style and themes form the crux of almost all horror stories today. But poe s short life was filled with tragedy and heartbreak. Hours before his death edgar allan poe was found in the gutter disheveled and raving feb 22 2018 e l. On a dark and stormy election night in 1849 a newspaperman hurrying to ryan s 4 th ward polling place in baltimore came upon a man lying in a gutter outside the public hall.

Poe died at the end of a decade known in europe as the hungry forties and he wasn t the only american to fall face down in the gutter during a seven year long depression brought on by a. This is the tragic real life story of edgar allan poe. Hamilton it s a mystery the father of detective fiction may have penned himself.