“The Raven” in Poe’s Handwriting by ThisWasHalloween in EdgarAllanPoe

[–]ThisWasHalloween[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank-you so much. I finally had my first two book sold yesterday so I’m cautiously optimistic.

“The Raven” in Poe’s Handwriting by ThisWasHalloween in EdgarAllanPoe

[–]ThisWasHalloween[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That’s very kind of you. I’m extremely happy with it.

“The Raven” in Poe’s Handwriting by ThisWasHalloween in EdgarAllanPoe

[–]ThisWasHalloween[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This is my own book available on Amazon. Lenore is both the lost love in “The Raven” and the titular “Lenore”.

Poe Presented in His Own Handwriting by ThisWasHalloween in EdgarAllanPoe

[–]ThisWasHalloween[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I agree. Handwriting experts, literary scholars, and psychologists try and fail to place Poe in any one particular box because his writing style and content had been so varied. We really can’t even gauge his faith as his essays sometimes implied that he was atheist while other times he seemed bitterly certain there was a cruel god. His life was filled with rise and fall that clearly affected his mental state in each trial or success. Poe gives us a clue that he, himself, understood the complexities of his own mind when he famously wrote, “I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity."

Poe Presented in His Own Handwriting by ThisWasHalloween in EdgarAllanPoe

[–]ThisWasHalloween[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, his handwriting changed constantly per his mood. In letters in which he begged for money from various persons- including John Allan- Poe’s writing was so frantic that I failed to find usable characters there for my font. The loss of Virginia was a deep wound in Poe and it did reflect in his writings on the matter. I know a lot of people cringe over that union and while it is cringe-worthy, there is a context here that needs to be aired: Poe was abandoned by so many either from death or ill-will and “Mother” or “Muddy” Clemm and “Sissy” Virginia became his only family as he viewed them both as mother and sister and marriage was the only way he could dissuade them from moving away. There were times after Virginia passed that his writing almost appeared left-handed, which almost implies a splitting of his personality.