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Welcome to Celebrate Creativity– My name is George Bartley and here I'd like to talk with Mr. Poe about the most influential person in his life– And buy influential, I don't necessarily mean that in a good way.

Now, many scholars have claimed that the most crucial element of Poe’s life is the fact that at a very early age his life was placed in the hands of a man who just didn’t care and had significant emotional problems.  OK - the task - and it WOULD be a task - of raising an unusual and even difficult child such as the young Edgar Poe would be a challenge for most people.  Some scholars have even admitted that the young Poe could bring out the worst in a parent or guardian.  And it turned out that John Allan was a largely unsympathetic human being - and possibly one of the worse choices imaginable to take charge of Poe’s upbringing.

Excuse me, here is the wax figure of Mr. Poe himself. Could you tell us a little bit about John ALLAN?

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