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Quoth the foundation, 'Evermore'
By adamg on Sun, 01/19/2014 - 12:26pm
The Boston Poe Foundation reports that it's nearing its fundraising goal to have a life-sized bronze statue of Edgar Allan Poe and a particularly menacing raven cast and installed at Boylston and Charles streets this summer.
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He hated Boston
Or so the story goes. I kind of wish this soon to be Chinese Tourist photo subject/Who the hell is this guy photo op piece can be placed behind the Emerson killer crane dorm where he was actually born. It would be a better place for it.
Phantasmically Fantastic
Finally the Frogpondians can thumb those New Yorkians, Baltimoreans and Richmondians who all claim a pound of Poe's spiritual flesh. Looks like a terrific statue although it looks like he is leaving. Not sure if his leaving Boston communicates the best message.
It is good in any case. That the once literary capital of the nation would shirk any association with Poe is a wasted opportunity. Poe was world famous. Did anyone see the French pieces at the MFA a while back that included references to Poe? And Boston can lay claim to the location that inspired The Cask of Amontillado. All that Baltimore can claim is that he died there drunk. Blah. In Boston we can celebrate the real life macabre murders made Poe famous!
Question: Does anyone know who the bust in Beach Street in Chinatown represents? I always thought it looks like Poe but there is no plague which identifies the individual.
Bust on Beach
You mean the Shakespeare plaque?
http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMDJ5J_Shakespeare_Bust_15_Beach_Stre...
Yes - thank you.
The Bust on Beach. Good movie title. That bust forlorn. Yet having it rest there unobtrusively is intriguing. A bit of Shakespeare in an odd corner of the city is good.
Baltimore on the other hand turned its statute of Poe into a tourist photo op. by moving it from another corner that was slightly hidden to a plaza which is too exposed. It's previous site was not ideal. It was a small plot of land a few feet disconnected from the nearby park, Wyman Park. But situated in an off beat place, surrounded by shrubs also provided it with an intimate feel and yet slightly disconnected feel that I think fits Poe.
But that statue merely has Poe sitting listening (to what? music of the spheres, his muse?). The Boston Poe appears to be dynamic. And apparently it is Poe returning. I don't think to home. He made his affection for Boston clear. Hopefully Boston however can convince his spirit that the Frogpondians are gone and that he is finally embraced in the city of his birth.
nice
pretty bad-ass
Reminds Me Of The Uncle Sam Statue
"life-sized" They do know
"life-sized" They do know when Poe lived in Boston, he was a baby, smaller than that raven.