The Death of Edgar A. Poe: “A Tissue of Malevolent Blasphemies”
By Susan Amper
October 7, 2012A new musical play with Edgar A. Poe as its subject was recently reviewed by Charles Isherwood for The New York Times. Summing up the play Isherwood wrote: “With just a few dollars to his name culled from lectures given at literary societies, Poe was en route from Virginia to New York when [he] had…