Edgar Allan Poe: American legend who's inspired untold millions of shitty teenage poets.

Edgar Allan Poe was a seriously disturbed, alcoholic genius. Without him, the dark, shadow filled room may have gone un-feared. The mysterious tappings, rappings, and scrapes would've gone unnoticed, and the world would have been far less beautifully terrifying.
The troubled man, although many came before him, paved the way for a new generation of mopey, depressed, teenage American poets, yet so few have ever met Poe's standard, and few of Poe's works reached the beauty of The Raven.
The Raven is a poem written rhythmically, drawing the reader, or in this case the listener, into each scene, each thought, in a way that can draw tears, get hearts pounding.
Who better to read such a brilliant poem than the man with perhaps the most recognizable voice in the world, James Earl Jones.