The Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, Vol. 6 of 6

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Excerpt from The Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, Vol. 6 of 6: With Biographical Essay, Life and PoemsThose who refer to prenatal in¿uences the funereal gloom and sombre side of Edgar Poe's character, have probably good grounds for their theory, but apart from that, and the almost chronic ill fortune which accom panied him, there is little doubt that the friendless isolation of that lustrum of childhood spent in a foreign land, and in such a solemn old town as was Stoke Newing ton, must have had an awe-inspiring if not depressing effect upon the exiled orphan. Whatever may have been the in¿uence of the venerable old town and its excessively ancient school-house upon the boy's morbidly sensitive mind, it is certain that when he returned to Virginia, in 1821, it was with a good ground work of knowledge.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.