Looking Into the Cosmos with Edgar Allan Poe - Dr. Harry Poe

Today I had the privilege to speak with Dr. Hal Poe, a professor at Union University in Jackson, TN. Dr. Poe is a distant relation to Edgar Allan Poe, the poet and short story writer. Dr. Poe is the author of Evermore, a fascinating book about his older cousin. Today we discuss the wide-ranging talent of this often-misunderstood writer. There are so many interesting things about Poe that it's hard to know where to begin. For instance, did you know that:

• Edgar Allan Poe wrote more humorous stories than horror stories.
• Dorothy Sayers considered him the father of the mystery story.
• Poe's life closely parallels that of C.S. Lewis leading up to Lewis's conversion.
• He wrote a book about the cosmos where he explains a general theory of relativity, one hundred years before Einstein produced it.

If your view of Edgar Allan Poe was only formed by your public school literature class, after you listen to this interview you'll never see him the same way again. 

 

• Evermore: Edgar Allan Poe and the Mystery of the Universe
• Bonus Article: C.S. Lewis Was a Secret Government Agent