It has been two hundred and one years since his death.. I was born and raised
next to the Bronx border, so I feel a closeness to Edgar..Edgar Allan Poe was
already a noted literary critic, poet and author when he rented a small cottage
in Fordham for $100 a year in 1846. He vainly hoped the fresh air would cure his
wife's tuberculosis. While living in the cottage, he befriended the Jesuit
teachers at nearby St. John's College (now Fordham University), and wrote
Annabel Lee and The Bells. The cottage, now in Poe Park, is administered by The
Bronx County Historical Society as a historic landmark museum..........In the
last three years of his life, Edgar sought to turn his thoughts from the
negative to the positive by befriending the Religious Brothers at St. Johns
College..He died at only forty years old.......namaste, thomas
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