Edgar Allan Poe's Impact on Modern and American Literature

Edgar Allan Poe’s works were disregarded at first in the United States, but they gained soaring popularity after well-known French poet Charles Baudelaire, whose own writings were influenced by Poe, gave them recognition in the period around 1850.  As the years have passed since then, his stories and poems have been immortalized from the classroom, to film, to the numerous authors who count Poe as a major influence on their own literary creations. http://bit.ly/217fMWw