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Like Vincent Van Gogh, Edgar Allen Poe was significantly underrated during his time. He is now credited with bringing the detective genre to the forefront. Many of his pieces included horror, suspense, and mystery.
The work he put in back then didn’t get appreciated until much later. His piece The Raven is a hot commodity these days but didn’t bring in any money in the 1800s. Poe ended a poor, dead artist.
