Poet and critic by character and supreme attainment, logician and philosopher by taste and mannerism, Poe was not at all immune from defects and affectations. His pretence to profound and obscure scholarship, his blundering ventures in stilted and laboured pseudo-humour, and his frequently vitriolic outbursts of essential prejudice ought to https://youtube.com/shorts/XxJicTFshOk?si=MWe_21sO5t57InfB