was he an opium addict or was it just for literary purposes?

-- Anonymous, August 07, 2001

Answers

As far as we know neither. Probably wouldn't take much of alcohol or opium or in combination to make him sick. I sense that ever enduring notion that Poe's imaginings derive from artificial stimuli. Many writers of his century were lured into literary drug experiments that ruined their health rather than improved their quality outflow. Read Stephen king on his own addictions and how useless and detrimental it is to a creative writer.(On Writing- book on tape read by author). Toward the end of his life, the distraught Poe tried a weak form of suicide with a mixture of laudanum. That failed too, fortunately.

-- Anonymous, August 07, 2001

A teacher told me that she thought he may have had tuberculosis and that he would take opium to help ease the pain. It makes sense, but I am no positive.

-- Anonymous, November 07, 2001

Poe was never on opium; his doctor testified to that. However, he did have something of a drinking promblem. Just one glass of wine would get him drunk. Toward the end of his life his wife, sick with TB, died, and his drinking problem got worse. He would go on these binges and wake up on the side of a road in a different city in strange clothing.

-- Anonymous, December 19, 2001

Yes poe did alot of opium and how do i know u ask,because me and him used to get wasted on it then we would go drink fourties of old english in the alley

-- Anonymous, February 07, 2002

He uses refrences to opium in some of his stories like in the Fall of the house of Usher where he has a feeling and he say it is like the come down effect of opium. I think he was a user.

-- Anonymous, May 21, 2002

I smoked him up so many times he owes me!!!

-- Anonymous, September 26, 2002

I did him in the ass once

-- Anonymous, September 26, 2002

Zac gallipo tried touching his balls once but Edgar said know and slapped him for being gay

-- Anonymous, September 26, 2002