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1,742 wordsEdgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849), was an American poet, short-story writer, and literary critic. Poe's stormy personal life and his haunting poems and stories combined to make him one of the most famous figures in American literary history. Poe's influence on literature has been immense. His short story "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1841) is considered the first modern detective story. His reviews of American novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne mark him as the first significant theorist of the modern s...
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Ea Poe Madman Or Literary Genius
1,386 words... his fondness for drinking. This is ironic because eighteen years later doctors would say the same of Edgar. Edgar would fall in love with Mary Starr, a seventeen year old. Marys brother disapproved of Edgar because Edgar couldnt support a wife. It has been suggested that losing Mary because of money was part of the reason Edgar switched from writing poetry to try his hand at fiction. On August 13, 1831 the Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post published a story, The Dream, believed to have been...
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Edgar Allan Poe Arthur Gordon Pym
3,065 wordsMadman or Literary Genius? Edgar Allan Poe? s life is almost as strange as his writings. Poe is, perhaps, best known for his bizarre tales of terror, death, decay and madness. To a world fascinated by the bizarre and the macabre, Poe has often seemed an embodiment of the satanic characters of his own fiction, the archetype of the neurotic genius. (Mc Micheal 727). He was equally as talented at poetry, detective stories, and as a literary critic. Many controversies surrounded Poe in death as well...
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Edgar Allan Poe Arthur Gordon Pym
2,862 wordsEDGAR ALLAN POE Many authors literary works are often influenced by their own personal life experiences. Among these authors is Edgar Allan Poe, one of the most inventive writers of prose and poetry in the nineteenth century. The juxtaposition of Poe's life and work is most evident in the morbid personalities and melancholy themes of his literary compositions, similar to those of his life. Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston, Massachusetts on January 19, 1809. His mother, Elizabeth Arnold Poe, ha...
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Edgar Allan Poe Arthur Gordon Pym
11,004 wordsIn the Valley of the Shows Edgar Allan Poe was born at 33 Hollis Street, Boston, Mass. , on January 19, 1809, the son of poverty stricken actors, David, and Elizabeth (born Arnold) Poe. His parents were then filling an engagement in a Boston theatre, and the appearances of both, together with their sojourns in various places during their wandering careers, are to be plainly traced in the play bills of the time. Paternal Ancestry The father of the poet was one David Poe of Baltimore, Maryland, wh...
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Arthur Gordon Pym House Of Seven
1,169 wordsnarrative styles in Melville's Bartleby, Poe's Arthur Gordon Pym, and Hawthorne's The House of Seven Gables. How all three authors utilize a conversational tone for the function of their work. In works by three of the most classically American authors of the nineteenth century, Melville, Poe, and Hawthorne, a trait that can be considered common to all three authors is pronounced clearly as a means to their narration. This trait is that of deploying a narrative laden with- and moreover led by -co...
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