World Stamp Today:
JANUARY 16, 2009
The Edgar Allan Poe commemorative stamp was issued by the U.S. Postal Service on January 16, 2009.
The stamp designed by Carl T. Herrman from Carlsbad, California celebrates the 200th birth anniversary of Edgar Allan Poe, one of America’s most extraordinary poets and fiction writers.
He and his works have been praised the world over. English Poet Laureate Alfred Lord Tennyson, mentioned Poe as “the literary glory of America.” British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle called him “the supreme original short story writer of all time.”
(Concept and research: Richard Allan Uy) All rights reserved
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