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Living Out The Romantic Heroic Ideal: An Interpretive Study Of The Life And Work Of Edgar Allan Poe And Robert Schumann, John Alexander Dribus

Honors Theses

In 1849, a man was found destitute on the streets of Baltimore and died neglected, a few days later. Likewise in Germany, only seven years later, another great man died in an insane asylum after starving himself to death. Both men were under the age of fifty when they died, and both men had had a profound effect on the artistic world of which they were a part. Yet they met fates that were anything but glamorous. Destitute and abandoned, both died in obscurity. One was a poet and the other a composer. They lived on opposite sides of the …