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Edgar Allan Poe, Design Critic

In Poe’s view, the interior of the English apartment is the pinnacle of good taste. Everything else is hardly tolerable.

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From Pits and Pendulums to Pastoral Porches: Edgar Allan Poe’s Bronx Getaway

Once upon a morning dreary, I left Brooklyn with eyes bleary, Wearily I took the subway to a poet’s old forgotten home. In 1844, Edgar Allan Poe and his young wife Virginia moved to New York City. It was Poe’s second time living in the city and just one of many homes for the peripatetic […]