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Edgar Allan Poe - Gothic, Horror, Poetry: Poe’s work owes much to the concern of Romanticism with the occult and the satanic. It owes much also to his own feverish dreams, to which he applied a rare faculty of shaping plausible fabrics out of impalpable materials.
- Manuscript Found in a Bottle Quotes. A feeling, for which I have no name, has taken possession of my soul – a sensation which will admit of no analysis, to which the lessons of bygone times are inadequate, and for which I fear futurity itself will offer me no key.
- Ligeia Quotes. The night waned; and still, with a bosom full of bitter thoughts of the one only and supremely beloved, I remained gazing upon the body of Rowena.
- The Fall of the House of Usher Quotes. I know not how it was – but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit.
- William Wilson Quotes. Let me call myself, for the present, William Wilson. The fair page now lying before me need not be sullied with my real appellation.
Abstract. Edgar Allan Poe made tremendous contribution to horror fiction. Poe’s inheritance of gothic fiction and American literature tradition combined with his living experience forms the background of his horror fictions.
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Enjoy many of Poe's stories in our collections, Gothic, Ghost, Horror & Weird Library, Halloween Stories, and Mystery Stories. The Edgar Allan Poe Page at American Literature, featuring a biography and Free Library of the author's Novels, Stories, Poems, Letters, and Texts.
Summary. Few would hazard a challenge to long-standing opinions that Poe was a master of the Gothic horror tale, although many might not as readily be aware that he did not invent Gothic fiction. When he began to attract widespread attention by publishing several macabre tales in the Southern Literary Messenger in early 1835, critics sounded ...
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- 2002
Earlier European Gothic fiction emphasized the supernatural, castles and curses; Poe brought horror down to earth and made us fear the ordinary and everyday. The deranged narrator in The...
In his Gothic tales, Poe also employed an essentially symbolic, almost allegorical method which gives such works as “The Fall of the House of Usher,” “The Masque of the Red Death,” and “Ligeia” an enigmatic quality that accounts for their enduring interest and links them with the symbolical works of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville.
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