Architect of Dreams

Southern poet Dave Smith follows the peripatetic Poe to freshly present him, not as a master craftsman of ghoulish horror tales or clever mysteries, but as a highly imaginative seeker after cosmic truths. His view of Creation's constant cycle could be glimpsed, Poe believed, through his dreams, when half-awake or asleep. Some of his best tales attempt to illustrate this plot, giving an "undercurrent," a deliberate sub-story to his work. Excerpts from classic poems and three of Poe's tales, each of a different genre, are dramatized: "MS. Found in a Bottle," "The Fall of the House of Usher," and "The Purloined Letter ".

Seen on PBS

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