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Poet raged about everything with article and detailed verse (5,5,3)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

edgar allan poe

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'poet' is the definition.

'raged about everything with article and detailed verse' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
an anagram of 'raged' is 'edgar' which is located in the answer.
'about' could be 'a' (abbreviation in Chambers) and 'a' is found within the answer.
'article' could be 'an' (indefinite article) and 'an' is located in the answer.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Other definitions for edgar allan poe that I've seen before include "writer of short stories" , "Writer producing horror" , "Poet and writer of the macabre" , "Short-story writer" , "He wrote" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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