Nevermore: The Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe Nevermore: The Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe Nevermore: The Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe, is a musical that was written, composed, and directed by Jonathan Christenson, and designed by Bretta Gerecke. It follows the tragic life of Edgar Allan Poe and the internal struggles he faced which later on inspired his writings. The script contains many references to Edgar Allan Poe's poems and short stories. The majority of the script follows the true events which took place in his life, while other aspects are fictitious. It was originally produced at the Catalyst
The City in the Sea of America" in 1850, the year after Poe's death, as an example of Poe's best poetry. Poe was accused of plagiarizing part of the poem from a poem called "Musing Thoughts", first published in 1829 in "The Token." Both poems include a line about a "thousand thrones". Even so, it is considered one of his best poems from his early years. "The Proud Tower" by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Barbara Wertheim Tuchman, subtitled "A portrait of the world before the War: 1890-1914", New York: Macmillan, 1966, derives its title and contains an epigraph from Edgar Allan Poe's 1845 version of the