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Poe

1

[ poh ]

noun

  1. Edgar Allan, 1809–49, U.S. poet, short-story writer, and critic.


POE

2
or P.O.E.
  1. port of embarkation.

Poe

1

/ pəʊ /

noun

  1. PoeEdgar Allan18091849MUSWRITING: short-story writerWRITING: poetWRITING: critic Edgar Allan. 1809–49, US short-story writer, poet, and critic. Most of his short stories, such as The Fall of the House of Usher (1839) and the Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque (1840), are about death, decay, and madness. The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841) is regarded as the first modern detective story


POE

2

abbreviation for

  1. military port of embarkation
  2. port of entry

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Example Sentences

Lewis Carroll, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Edgar Allan Poe, and Vincent van Gogh all likely experienced the condition.

“Madam Speaker, this is America; it is not Burger King,” Poe said.

“Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear,” wrote Edgar Allan Poe.

“The designation which we fight for all the time is a hollow designation because there is no backup,” Poe told The Daily Beast.

“There has been not a dime of money frozen or seized from the Haqqani network,” said Poe.

With such a faculty Balzac could not be, like Edgar Poe, merely a narrator of nightmares.

Poe spent the rest of his life combatting mental sickness, poverty and loneliness.

After the Poe will come two volumes of mine, one of critical articles and the other of poems.

You, who love to amuse yourself in all depths, will you not make an excursion into the depths of Edgar Poe?

Is Usher described at all when Poe says, “I gazed upon him with a feeling half of pity, half of awe”?

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