Welcome to Celebrate Poe - this is episode 287 - Poe’s Views on Democracy and Donald Trump.
When I started this weekly podcast over 4 years ago, my original intentions were to keep Poecentric - meaning only about the works, times, and life of America’s Shakespeare - that grew to some of the literary influences on his works. Even though I have strong religious and political beliefs,, I wanted to concentrate on Edgar Poe as much as possible. But for this election season, I could not resist dealing with what Poe might have felt about American politics - utilizing how the writer felt about democracy and demagogues in the 19th century.
In this podcast, I would like to talk with Mr. Poe about his views of government - and especially about what he might have thought about the specter of Donald Trump. I had previously been under the impression that Edgar Allan Poe was somewhat reactionary in his political positions - coming from a wealthy and rather privileged background in the South - but after doing a great deal of research, I was surprised at how nuanced his views toward democracy actually were.
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