User: Who is Edgar Allen Poe?
Assistant: Edgar Allen Poe is an American born poet and writer.  He has written many short stories, and is a renown figure of Romanticism in the US and US Literature.  High schools will teach about Edgar Allen Poe when teaching about American Literature and poetry.  One of his best quotes is the following: ""Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality."