The Nature of Edgar Allan Poe

A while back I posted my quick one-take reading of Poe's classic story of nature and super-nature, "Silence: A Fable." This new version uses some high-tech audio to bring you a more polished listening experience. Read by James Addison Conrad; principle photography by Parker Grice, with the addition of a few pieces from the Creative Commons (credited at the end of the video).

Most people don’t think of Edgar Allan Poe as a nature writer, but he often was. His most famous piece, “The Raven,” is about what I consider the central question of nature writing: how much of the world is in our perceptions, and how much objectively true? “Silence” considers another aspect of our relationship with nature. Or, maybe it's just some weird stuff involving hippos.