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Edgar Allan Poe Pervaded America's Pop Culture

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This text is about how so many people are inspired by Edgar Allan Poe. He remains one of the few writers to have fully pervaded America’s pop-culture consciousness. His legacy is everywhere and has had a big impact on America’s pop culture. His legacy has been primarily on television. Poe has some great works but then there are also some controversial works that have people unsettled to this day. Although Edgar Allan Poe might have had a giant impact on America’s pop culture to this day there are still some people that do not like Poe’s works but little do they know Americas pop culture is this way because of Poe. It is hard to imagine that like someone like Poe who died in 1849, nearly 50 years before the invention of the motion picture could

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