Father of the detective story and the modern gothic horror tale, Edgar Allan Poe was also a great lyric poet who influenced a professional international audience as diverse as Baudelaire and Dostoyevsky. his American contemporary, Emerson, dismissed him as "the jingle man," but Europe admired and emulated his romanticism and theory of poetic unity.
Poe explores love, death and despair, reflecting the anguish he suffered throughout his own short, troubled life.
Performed here by various stars, including Christopher Cazenove, Joel Gray, Gregory Hines, Roger Rees, David Warner and Michael York, the emotion and reality of Poe's feelings are brought to life.
