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The Image of am American Legend
Poe did for the image of a writer what grunge artists like Nirvana
did for the image of musicians.
He brought to the public eye an abnormal,
deranged man where it had expected to find a wise learned man with dusty diplomas hung on the walls.
For the first time the idea of a tortured artist was brought in full to the image of the professional writer. The unstable and far more interesting sterotype Edgar Allan Poe brought to the forefront of American literature still exists today in the minds of any person who cares to think on the matter.
Now instead of images of proper, godfearing family men with spotless reputations alike to Sir Walter Elliot of Jane Austen's "Persuasion" American society identifies more often with crazed geniuses, like the famous "Doctor Brown" in Back to the Future.
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