Edgar Allan Poe was a writer.
Edgar Allan Poe . He is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States and American literature as a whole , and he was one of the country 's earliest practitioners of the short story . In January 1845 , Poe published his poem `` The Raven '' to instant success . Tamerlane and Other Poems is the first published work by American writer Edgar Allan Poe .