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Edgar Allan Poe (1809-49) Edgar Allan Poe (1809-49) Tragic life, a gifted but tormented man “Poe was the first American writer to succeed in creating a total life in art as a foil to the conflict and frustration of the human predicament.” Poet and short story writer( those of horrors and “ratiocination”) Poe’s Theory of Poetry Beauty is the only legitimate province of the poet: The sense of the beautiful is an immortal instinct within men. “The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.”—Poe, 1846, “The Philosophy of Composition” Poetry was, a ‘passion’, not merely a ‘purpose’; poetry should appeal only to the sense of beauty, not truth; informational poetry, or didactic poetry was illegitimate (in the times to inculcate a moral); poetic emotion was a vague sensory state, so against realistic details in poetry. The music of Language: language as medium of pure musical and rhythmic beauty A pioneering aesthetician and psychological investigator To Helen 致海伦 海伦，你的美丽对于我，　就像昔日尼斯安的小船?，在芳菲的大海轻轻颠簸，　载着精疲力竭的流浪汉　驶向他故乡的岸边。?　　早已习惯漂泊在汹涌的海上，?　你堇色的秀发，典雅的容颜?和仙女般的风姿已令我知详??何谓希腊的华美壮观，何谓罗马的宏伟辉煌。?　　 瞧！在那明亮的壁龛窗里，?　我看你玉立多像尊雕塑，?　那镶嵌玛瑙的明灯在手！?啊，普叙赫，你来自圣地，　那片天国净土！　　　? Eros and Psyche His short stories The first to develop the short story as a distinctive art form and to elaborate criteria. Subject: Morbidity, necrophilia, the no man’s land between death and life; the strange, incestuous vampirism of the dead with the living Grotesque, Gothicism Brevity, single effect, truth instead of beauty, psychological effect on the reader The earliest American detective fiction and science fiction “The Cask of Amontillado” “The Masque of the Red Death” “The Fall of the House of Usher” “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” “The Purloined Letter” –one of the world’s greatest detective stories. “The Fall of the House of Usher” A gothic masterpiece The setting and symbols reveal character and conflict Study of fear Incestuous rel