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The true genius shudders at incompleteness.

Edgar Allan Poe

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Edgar Allan Poe
Age: 40 †
Born: 1809
Born: January 19
Died: 1849
Died: October 7
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Crime Writer
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Literary Theorist
Lyricist
Novelist
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Poet
Science Fiction Writer
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Boston
Massachusetts
Poe
Edgar Poe
E. A. Poe
Shudders
Incompleteness
Tension
Genius
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