Edgar Allen Poe

Edgar Allen Poe by artist Peter Pagast is located near the Edgar Allen Poe National Historic Site in the North Philadelphia. The mural is painted near this site where Poe lived for six years and where he purportedly began his seminal work The Raven. The mural is a familiar portrait of the author. The mural features the following text from the story Hop-Frog:

Edgar Allan
Poe
I never knew any one so
keenly alive to a joke as
the king was. He seemed
to live only for joking. To tell
a good story of the joke
kind, and to tell it well, was
the surest road to his favor:
“HOP-FROG”