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Welcome to Celebrate Poe - This is Episode 330 - The Year Without a Summer, Part One - the 1815 explosion of Mount Tambora would have been much longer, and much louder, and become an ecological terror.
Now, In the past few episodes, Poe has delved into Ivan the Terrible and Vlad the Impaler - two historical figures, whether by sensibility or mythology, have played a role in the development of Poe’s approach to subject matter for writing - but an event occurred in 1815 that changed everything - an weather event that inspired literary works such as Lord Byron’s poem Darkness and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818), reflecting themes of despair influenced by environmental catastrophe.
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