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Episode number 115 - Is This Poe’s Greatest Work?

This episode delves into 3 poems by Edgar Poe -

• His first surviving poem.
• Fanny
• To Helen (one of this greatest)

What was Poe’s first surviving poem?
What is Malcolm Gladwell’s 10,000 Hour Rule?
How does it apply to the Beatles, Poe, or almost any artist?
Who inspired the poem “Fanny”?
Who inspired the poem “To Helen?”
What did James Russell Lowell think of “To Helen”?
What are the most famous lines of “To Helen?”
Name one reason those lines are so great.

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