Thank you to Liz and McGrath for amplifying my point.

I don't read a lot of fiction, but a couple of years ago I read a murder mystery novel set at West Point during Poe's year there as a Cadet. He spends more time in assisting the police detective than minding his studies. I'm sorry, but I remember neither the title nor the author. It was filled with a lot of forced allusion to what Poe would later write, if memory serves.