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The works of American author Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) include many poems, short stories, and one novel. His fiction spans multiple genres, including horror fiction, adventure, science fiction, and detective fiction, a genre he is credited with inventing. [1] These works are generally considered part of the Dark ...
1311 quotes from Edgar Allan Poe: 'I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.', 'All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.', and 'We loved with a love that was more than love.'.
By Edgar Allan Poe. Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—. While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. “’Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door—.
Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston in 1809. Both of his parents were actors. His mother, the much admired Elizabeth Arnold Poe was a talented actress. His father, David Poe was considered less talented. The Poes performed at theaters throughout the Eastern seaboard, from Boston to Virginia.
Edgar Allan Poe’s stature as a major figure in world literature is primarily based on his ingenious and profound short stories, poems, and critical theories, which established a highly influential rationale for the short form in both poetry and fiction.
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. With an air of objectivity and spontaneity, his productions are closely dependent on his own powers of imagination and an ...
Edgar Allan Poe ( 19. ledna 1809 Boston – 7. října 1849 Baltimore) byl americký romantický básník, prozaik, literární teoretik a esejista . Byl autorem zpravidla fantastických a mystických příběhů a zakladatelem detektivního a hororového žánru. Dokázal mistrovsky zachytit stav osoby, která příběh vypráví.
