Why was Poe viewed by some as a "gifted but socially unacceptable" writer?

Question

Why was Poe viewed by some as a "gifted but socially unacceptable" writer?

Answer 1

Poe was, a little odd. He wrote about dark and frightening things...revenge, death, murder.....people in his time were fascinated with his works, but not with him. Poe was also, later in life, unstable. The death of his wife, Virginia (also his cousin) was a very traumatic event for him. I believe the greatest disservice done to Poe was a biography that came out right after his death which called him a drunk, drug addict and other terrible things. Most of it was proven, later, as a malicious lie, but by that time it was so widely circulated, and read, that people took it for fact.

Answer 2

Poe was kicked out of West Point Military Academy for socially unacceptable behavior. He returned to Baltimore, Maryland, where he embarked on his writing career. His greatest supporters were the European intelligenisa, specifically the French and French poet Charles Baudelaire. In the end, alcohol won in Poe's life. One morning, he was found in a Baltimore alley dead and beaten up after a night of heavy drinking. During his life, he also lived in the Bronx, NYC, on Grand Concourse Avenue, only a mile from today's Yankee Stadium.

Answer 3

well a better answer than bashing someone that you never knew, the reason he was found as gifted but socially unacceptable was in that time period writing about dark and well sometimes questionable thoughts and feelings was considered unheard of, also being fashoned in the way he wrote people often thought he was quite the dark and gloomy character himself and while in this day in age being so dark is almost a norm in society back then you were very eccentric.

Answer 4

Poor Poe had bi-polar depressive disorder. I saw this on a poster of Poe in which he said,"I have times of wild imagination and times of deep sorrow." It was at a convention of 19th century authors.

Answer 5

Well, marrying his 13 year old cousin springs to mind. He was also quite a drunk.