He also wrote prose poetry and one could argue that The Bells is Free Verse, long before Walt Whitman, who is usually credited with inventing Free Verse.
Glad Poe is in there, since he was my maininfluence when I first started writing. He also wrote prose poetry and one could argue that The Bells is Free Verse, long before Walt Whitman, who is usually credited with inventing Free Verse. (Apparently, he was a big influence on both the Imagists and the French Vers Libre poets, who also influenced the Imagists, both of whom credit Whitman rather than Poe as the progenitor of Free Verse.)