The Works of Edgar Allan Poe: The Raven Edition Volume 1

ISBN-10
ISBN-13
9798637622320
Series
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe
Pages
165
Language
English
Published
2020-04-16
Authors
Edgar Allan Edgar Allan Poe, Bills Andres

Description

The works of yankee writer edgar allan poe (january 19, 1809 - october 7, 1849) encompass many poems, short tales, and one novel. His fiction spans more than one genres, along with horror fiction, journey, technological know-how fiction, and detective fiction, a style he's credited with inventing. These works are usually taken into consideration part of the darkish romanticism movement, a literary response to transcendentalism. Poe's writing displays his literary theories: he disagreed with didacticism and allegory. Meaning in literature, he said in his criticism, have to be an undercurrent simply below the floor; works whose meanings are too apparent quit to be art. Poe pursued originality in his works, and disliked proverbs. He frequently blanketed elements of popular pseudosciences which include phrenology and physiognomy. His maximum recurring subject matters cope with questions of demise, along with its bodily symptoms, the results of decomposition, issues of untimely burial, the reanimation of the dead, and mourning. Though called a masterly practitioner of gothic fiction, poe did not invent the style; he became following a long-standing famous culture.

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