{"id":2887,"date":"2009-01-19T12:14:19","date_gmt":"2009-01-19T17:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/?p=2887"},"modified":"2009-01-19T12:14:19","modified_gmt":"2009-01-19T17:14:19","slug":"happy-birthday-mr-poe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/happy-birthday-mr-poe\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, Mr. Poe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetell-taleheart.com\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Cover: Michael Swertfagers The Tell-Tale Heart (click for more information)\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnesimpson.com\/images\/eap_telltaleheartcover_sm.jpg?resize=500%2C333&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"clear: left;\">Today would&#8217;ve been your 200th birthday. Hard to imagine, eh, especially for someone with such a predilection for death at a young age?<\/p>\n<p style=\"clear: left;\">For those who, like me, have something of a perhaps unhealthy attraction (and is there any other kind?) to EAP&#8217;s works, I heartily recommend two sources:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Daniel Hoffman&#8217;s <a title=\"Amazon: Poe Poe Poe etc., by Daniel Hoffman\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Poe\/dp\/0807123218\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe<\/em><\/a> (yes, seven <em>Poe<\/em>s). Sometimes maddening to read, until you sit back and realize how closely that&#8230; that <em>maddeningness<\/em> models the effect of reading Poe&#8217;s work itself. Hoffman is fully aware of Poe&#8217;s weaknesses as well as his strengths, his gimmickry as well as his style, and does not let himself be gulled into slavish hero worship. But the conclusion is inescapable: Poe (sometimes despite his worst instincts, sometimes because of them) was a master.<\/li>\n<li>Harry Lee Poe&#8217;s <a title=\"Amazon: EAP, an Illustrated Companion, by Harry Lee Poe\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Edgar-Allan-Poe-Illustrated-Companion\/dp\/B001FO9NJE\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Edgar Allan Poe: An Illustrated Companion to His Tell-Tale Stories<\/em><\/a>. The Missus gave me a copy of this for Christmas, but I didn&#8217;t get around to reading it until last week. Amazing. (Expect a full review here or, more likely, at the <a title=\"The Book Book\" href=\"http:\/\/thebookbook.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Book Book<\/em><\/a> blog in a few days&#8217; time.) It&#8217;s been nominated by the Mystery Writers of America for a 2009 Edgar Award in the critical\/biographical category.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The image at the top of this post is the &#8220;cover&#8221; of Michael Swertfager&#8217;s computer-generated 3D animated interpretation of Poe&#8217;s &#8220;The Tell-Tale Heart,&#8221; from 2007. (For more information about that project, see <a title=\"Michael Swertfager's 'The Tell-Tale Heart'\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thetell-taleheart.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.) Below, a couple of brief excerpts from the whole film:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Intro:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-2887-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/x-flv\" src=\"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/images\/TelltaleHeartIntro.flv?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/images\/TelltaleHeartIntro.flv\">https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/images\/TelltaleHeartIntro.flv<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p><strong>Invitation:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-2887-2\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/x-flv\" src=\"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/images\/TelltaleHeartInvitation.flv?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/images\/TelltaleHeartInvitation.flv\">https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/images\/TelltaleHeartInvitation.flv<\/a><\/video><\/div><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today would&#8217;ve been your 200th birthday. Hard to imagine, eh, especially for someone with such a predilection for death at a young age? For those who, like me, have something of a perhaps unhealthy attraction (and is there any other kind?) to EAP&#8217;s works, I heartily recommend two sources: Daniel Hoffman&#8217;s Poe Poe Poe Poe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","h5ap_radio_sources":[],"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2887","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kZSG-Kz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2887"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2897,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2887\/revisions\/2897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}