"In 1849, Edgar Allan Poe wrote "A Dream Within a Dream," a poem in which he may have reflected on the last days of his life. The author died that same year in Baltimore, Maryland, on Oct. 7 at age 40.
"All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream," Poe wrote.
This poem — which has themes of mortality, and of time or life slipping away like "grains of golden sand" through his fingers — is the topic of a free discussion happening Feb. 10, 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. at downtown's The NewSouth Bookstore, 105 Court St., Montgomery." (Source: Advertiser story HERE.
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