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
Poems by Edgar Allan Poe There is a death of the body that is silence, the speaker says, that should not be mourned. He does, however, warn against the silent death of the soul. The poem that would become "The Sleeper" went through many revised versions. First, in the 1831 collection "Poems of Edgar A. Poe", it appeared with 74 lines as "Irene." It was 60 lines when it was printed in the Philadelphia "Saturday Courier" on May 22, 1841. Poe considered it one of his best compositions, according to a note he sent to fellow author James Russell Lowell in 1844. Like many of