Rufus vs. Poe

The Past and The Curious: A History Podcast for Kids and Families

The Past and The Curious History Podcast for Kids

Kids & Family

4.5 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Episode 72: Edgar Allan Poe is about as famous as an author can be, but that might be owed largely to Rufus Wilmot Griswold. Rufus didn't really like Poe and wrote a scathing obituary and biography on the man, creating the dark figure many of us think Poe to be. In addition the story of Poe and Rufus, Mick does a dramatic reading of "The Raven" a poem which made Edgar Allan Poe a literary superstar.

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0:49.0	I'm Mick Sullivan and this is the past and the curious.
0:52.0	Thank you for joining us and this is episode 72, which happens to be about Edgar Allen
0:56.7	Poe and also a man with whom he had an on-again off-again friendship and the me frenemy sort
1:03.7	of thing named Rufus Wilmont Griswald and that relationship may have really helped Edgar
1:09.6	Allen Poe become the timeless author that he has come to be known as.
1:14.1	In addition to that, we're going to share a little bit of insight behind Poe's most
1:18.4	famous poem, The Raven, and do a dramatic reading with musical accompaniment of that
1:23.5	very poem.
1:25.0	Edgar Allen Poe's work is actually very near and dear to my heart.
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