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From: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jtbuKvIg62V71KiotHD2I4CNcv6gD97QP3L00

Edgar Allan Poe to be honored with Boston square
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BOSTON (AP) — Boston Mayor Thomas Menino and poet laureate Sam Cornish are dedicating a square near Boston Common in honor of master of Edgar Allan Poe.
Poe was born in Boston on Jan. 19, 1809. But the author of "The Raven" and "The Fall of the House of Usher" had an often bitter relationship with his hometown. He sometimes lied about his birthplace and voiced his distaste for its literary elite.
But Boston has tried recently to show more love for Poe. The mayor declared January Edgar Allan Poe Appreciation Month.
The square to be dedicated Monday is a short walk from where Poe was born, near the current State Transportation Building.
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TO add visuals:

Here is a map of the New Edgar Allen Poe Square in Boston:

poesquare005crop.jpg


And this is Boston's State House. Right around the corner from there was where Edgar Allen Poe was born:

poeheadboston2.jpg
 
Most of it was about his Literature he wasnt very
understood and was found to be odd to some and
they disliked his works and critiqued him a lot.
He was an oddity to some in his day and time.
People always pick on what they dont understand?
 
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