Tuesday, January 19, 2010

News at Eleven: [Edgar Allan] Poe sits at a desk with pen

and paper in hand, seemingly at the height of his creative powers. His upper lip is clean-shaven, though he sports long, bushy sideburns. And there's the slightest hint of a smile on his face.

"It actually represents Poe as he appeared to his contemporaries--a handsome, sophisticated young man on the rise," said Cliff Krainik, the owner of the portrait and a Poe scholar. "The daguerreotypes show him in his rather dissipated state, where he has gone through the difficulties of his life."

from Rome News-Tribune: Portrait shows morbid Poe in more flattering terms

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