The Tell Tale Heart pt.1 Edgar Allan Poe

Part One of a reading of Edgar Allan Allan Poe's The Tell Tale Heart at the LATV studio in Leominster Massachusetts by Jack Celli with musical score created by Mark Marquis. In 2003 Leominster residents Mark Marquis and Jack Celli collaborated on a Haloween special for local Access Television. Jack did a reading of Poe's classic and Mark added a BRILLIANT piano track. The making of the piano track will be added as another video on you tube in the near future. Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 -- October 7, 1849) was an American poet, short-story writer, editor, and literary critic, and is considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and invented the detective-fiction genre. He is credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction.[1] He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career.[2]

He was born Edgar Poe in Boston, Massachusetts. Poe, whose parents died when he was young, was taken in by John and Frances Allan, of Richmond, Virginia but was never formally adopted by them. After spending a short period at the University of Virginia and briefly attempting a military career, Poe and the Allans parted ways. Poe's publishing career began humbly, with an anonymous collection of poems, Tamerlane and Other Poems (1827), credited only to "a Bostonian".

Poe switched his focus to prose and spent the next several years working for literary journals and periodicals, becoming known for his own style of literary criticism. His work forced him to move between several cities, including Baltimore, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and New York City. In Baltimore in 1835, he married Virginia Clemm, his 13-year-old cousin. In January 1845, Poe published his poem "The Raven" to instant success. His wife died of tuberculosis two years later. He began planning to produce his own journal, The Penn (later renamed The Stylus), though he died before it could be produced. On October 7, 1849, at age 40, Poe died in Baltimore; the cause of his death is unknown and has been attributed to alcohol, brain congestion, cholera, drugs, heart disease, rabies, suicide, tuberculosis, and other agents.[3]

Poe and his works influenced literature in the United States and around the world, as well as in specialized fields, such as cosmology and cryptography. Poe and his work appear throughout popular culture in literature, music, films, and television. A number of his homes are dedicated museums today.

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[truoc959]

I absolutely love it. This is my favorite of Poe's works.  Awesome!

[DamnIwannafck232]

i feel so bad for edgar i mean all of his loved ones died of the same illment (consuption) its so sad plus he was neglected by both of hi s foster parents and poor

[JonJon3751]

lol my mom thinks poe is evil haha

[rrwifey143]

OMFG This scares me i love edgar allen poe. and i am only 13.

[AtomicStarBurst]

@Natsukinyire google "youtube mp3 converter"

[doggyhand12]

@DamnIwannafck232 but maybe if all of those things hadn't happened, then he would never have written such magnificent works, with darkness there must be light :)

[johnatv1995]

I got bored of reading, decided to watch it instead for ap lit.

[anatheimp]

the music is distracting

[GymnastRae99]

I had to (well, choose to) do this for my Forensics (Drama&Debate) Compition... I love this short story...(: Though, think he could have had a bit more emotion in the beginning...But it was still pretty awesome...

[CheeseIsAll164]

I'm doing this poem for my Oral Language Arts Poem Recital thingy for school. I love this guys reciting of this.

[rainman101ify]

i'm sorry to say this but i have seen much better. the acting was not passionate. I don't believe him as he's telling the story. there is also a touch of a new york accent in his voice and attitude, which is completely inappropriate for this piece. 

[40Pacino]

Without Poe, we probably not have had such great authors like Stephen King or Clive Barker. We may not have had such gifted film makers like Alfred Hitchcock. A lot of credit goes to him for that thanks to his masterpieces like this one