Name: Spreading the Feast Gathering
Start: 2025-07-11T00:00:00-05:00
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Tagged: Edgar Allen Poe

This topic has 6 replies, 6 voices, and was last updated 11 years, 8 months ago by missceegee.

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September 19, 2013 at 8:22 pm
Ricki
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Any recommendations or brief history synopsis?
September 19, 2013 at 8:25 pm
ServingwithJoy
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Too spooky and morbid for me…I read “The Tell Tale Heart” from my dad’s literature set when I was in 4th grade and had nightmares for a year. Are you sure you want to go there?
September 19, 2013 at 10:16 pm
susie in ms
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While I agree that Poe is dark, I have not read the above mentioned story. I just read a brief discription, and it seems much darker than the stuff I have read by him. “The Fall of the House of Usher” and “Raven”. There is this book called “Poetry for Young People: Edgar Allan Poe”. This might be what you are looking for. It has his less dark selections and the intro includes a 3 1/2 page bio.

http://www.amazon.com/Poetry-Young-People-Edgar-Allan/dp/1402754728/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top
September 19, 2013 at 10:42 pm
missceegee
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Oddly, I liked the Tell-Tale Heart as a kid, but I cannot remmeber much at this point. I do have the poetry for young people book mentioned and I find this series is good at weeding out poems.
September 20, 2013 at 3:41 am
gcbsmommy
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I read The Tell-Tale Heart in high school… *shudders*! I do think we will eventually read *something* of his, but not the aforementioned take! 😉
September 20, 2013 at 12:38 pm
TailorMade
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NOT on our to-read list.
September 20, 2013 at 12:47 pm
missceegee
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I retread the synopsis of Tell Tale Heart bc of the thoughts shared here. I remembered it being dark, but no detail. Um, no, we will not be reading this. In high school, we read it and I read many such things back then. Thankfully The Lord has washed that imagery from my brain. We may visit some of his other works after previewing, but this one is a no.