Team Poe

I prefer Edgar Allen Poe to Irving. I like that Poe has a background story to everything in his writing, not just some reason to write.  I think he is a very gifted poet and writer, because of the way he pays such attention to detail. Every word and the meaning behind every word is so thought out, or maybe it naturally occurs when he writes. The amount of bloodydeath in his stories make alot of people wonder why he thought it was necesary to be put into the story, but I believe Poe would not have been such a famous writer without it. This makes me question things a little though, because if his stories were not as gruesome.. Would he have been so famous? Or would he have been just another washed up writer with a past?