Tamerlane: Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories. Kind solace in a dying hour! Such, father, is not (now) my theme— I will not madly deem that power Of Earth may shrive me of the sin Unearthly pride hath revell’d in— I have no time to dote or dream: You call it hope—that fire of fire!