Edgar Allan Poe: Crazy or Alone?

Edgar Allan Poe is an amazing poet and short story author. Although most people consider him mentally deranged or crazy, I don't think he was. Sure his life was hard and he was alone for most of it. His Father neglected him and ignored him as well as not giving him any help. He refused to help Poe when he needed it and Poe was not included in his fathers will. Poe's mother died when he was young also. Soon after writing The Tell Tale Heart, Poe's wife died of tuberculosis. He was a heavy drinker and was very poor. These things could easily make someone crazy. But I don't think Poe was the crazy one. I think the characters he created were the crazy ones. Poe was lonely. His works describe things with words we associate with loneliness and depravity. Some of his characters were without a doubt "crazy" and others were just lonely like their creator. The man in The Raven I believe is not crazy. I think he is a depiction of Poe himself. Poe lost a few beautiful women in his life and so he often wrote about loosing beautiful women. The Raven is an example of that. He is talking to himself and hearing things and hopes it will be Lenore knocking at his door when he knows she is dead. When anybody looses someone, they don't want to believe it is true. They act as if the person is still here. As if the person will somehow hear them and come back. He's not crazy, he's just mourning. But in The Tell Tale Heart on the other hand, I believe that character is indeed crazy. he goes to such extreme measures so he simply won't have to look at a persons eye anymore. That in itself is odd. He plans everything out ahead of time and will take hours if necessary to make sure he is not heard. Then He kills the guy. All so he won't have to look at his ugly eye. Crazy. Then he hides him under the floor board and acts completely calm as he talks to the police. Eventually he gets so paranoid that guilt takes over him and he begins to supposedly hear the man alive under the floor board. Crazy. He wastes a week of his life on the extermination of this man and in the end, he is so guilty that he confesses. Poe is not crazy for coming up with the story. It's supposed to unrealistic like all of his works. But the Character in my opinion has a mental issue. he is defiantly CRAZY. What do you think?