On Sunday, the city of Boston, with former US Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky, and members of the Bostonian literary community, unveiled a bronze statue of Edgar Allan Poe near the Boston Common.

Poe, who was born in Boston in 1809 and published much of his most famous work there, had a love-hate relationship with the Bostonian literary community (particularly, with Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow). His chief complaint, according to a New York Times article, was that his fellow Boston writers were “didactic.” The article quotes him as having written: “He who pleases is of more importance to his fellow man than he who instructs.”

Despite Poe’s past misanthropy, many celebrated the uncovering of the Poe statue, and one intersection near Poe’s parents’ house was renamed in its honor. Additionally, Boston Public Library sponsored an elaborate exhibit about Poe’s relationship to the city of Boston.

Of the new landmark, Mayor Martin J. Walsh said, “It’s time that Poe, whose hometown was Boston, be honored for his connection to the city.” And the sculptor, Stefanie Rocknak, a philosophy professor at Hartwick College in Oneonta, NY, said, “He’s home. He’s back, in triumphant gesture, respected as a literary figure.”