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    Edgar Allan Poe is “acknowledged as a major literary figure‚ a master of Gothic atmosphere and interior monologue‚” (Milne). Edgar Allen Poe’s poetry often depicts many forms of sadness while also showing an understanding of life. These forms can be seen throughout his work due to the tragic events in his life which strongly influenced them. His work includes many of the themes woven into each of his poems‚ as well. Edgar Allan Poe shows many themes that are important to people now just as much as

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    Edgar Allan Poe‚ född 19 januari 1809 i Boston‚ Massachusetts‚ död 7 oktober 1849 i Baltimore‚ Maryland‚ var en amerikansk poet‚ novellförfattare‚ redaktör‚ litteraturkritiker och en av ledarna för den romantiska rörelsen i USA. Poe‚ som är mest känd för sina berättelser om skräck‚ mystik och sällsamma äventyr‚ var en av de tidiga amerikanska novellförfattarna och en föregångare till detektivlitteraturen. Han anses även ha bidragit till den framväxande science fiction-genren.[1] Poe föddes i Boston

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    Viewing Romanticism through Poe “I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow” (The Fall of the House of Usher 162) could practically sum up nearly all of Edgar Allan Poe’s works and his life. Throughout his many short stories‚ among which I read The Fall of the House of Usher‚ The Murders in the Rue Morgue‚ The Pit and the Pendulum‚ The Black Cat‚ The Purloined Letter‚ and The Cask of Amontillado‚ the constant theme conveyed is that of darkness. Some of his works‚ such as The Fall of the House

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    on in life. This is such the case with Edgar Allan Poe. His difficult life is‚ without a doubt‚ reflected in his dark‚ macabre tales and poems. He is widely acknowledged as the inventor of the modern detective story and an innovator in the science fiction genre‚ but he made his living as America’s first great literary critic and theoretician. Poe’s reputation today rests primarily on his tales of terror as well as on his haunting lyric poetry. Edgar Allan Poe used his literary works‚ to alleviate

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    Edgar Allan Poe

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    Edgar Allan Poe was an American author‚ poet‚ editor and literary critic‚ considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and horror. American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre with the worst life background full of tuberculosis cases he was orphaned young when his mother died shortly after his father abandoned the family. He is not only known for his stories and past‚ but about his quotes that changed

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    The Revolution of Poe Edgar Allan Poe has an acute and distinctive ability to capture the darkest and most heinous fascination of his readers‚ even years following his mysterious death. “He is the most often read of all of his contemporaries‚ but this is no accident‚ for this neurotic and unhappy artist is strangely modern‚ oddly keeping in with our own neurotic and unhappy age” (Van Stern xvi). What Poe introduced to America was the depth of darkest places of the human psyche‚ which was a relatively

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    This is exactly what has been done with the death of Edgar Allan Poe. Many have come up with different assumptions and accusations of Poe’s death‚ but none have been claimed to be the absolute positive explanation of it. John S. Craig writes‚ “His death in Baltimore‚ Maryland‚ October 7‚ 1849 has been surrounded by mystery form the very moment he was found unconscious in a Baltimore tavern a few days before he died in a hospital”( ? ). A few of the hypotheses are that Poe was an alcoholic

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    Edgar Allan Poe "Quoth the Raven‚ Nevermore." Excerpt from "The Raven" Grief‚ revenge‚ and unsurpassed sorrow. Few authors can replicate these feelings as well as Edgar Allan Poe. "The Raven"‚ "Lenore"‚ and "Annabel Lee" all refer to an instance where the narrator is grieving over a lost loved one. See! on yon drear and rigid bier low lies thy love‚ Lenore! Come! let the burial rite be read- the funeral song be sung!- An anthem for the queenliest dead that ever died so young- A dirge

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    Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston on January 19‚ 1809 during his life he was one of the most celebrated writers of dark poetry and fiction. He has a unique style of Gothicism in his narratives. Poe’s works haunt the mind and thrill the body. His story lines have left chills up readers’ spines for so many years‚ and he creates atmospheres that only a vampire would be comfortable in. The work of Edgar Allan Poe has many themes and literary devices including setting‚ symbolism‚ and importantly imagery

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    Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe was a bizarre and often scary writer. People throughout history have often wondered why his writings were so fantastically different and unusual. They were not the result of a diseased mind‚ as some think. Rather they came from a tense and miserable life. Edgar Allan Poe was not a happy man. He was a victim of fate from the moment he was born to his death only forty years later. He died alone and unappreciated. It is quite obvious that his life affected his

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