Edgar Allen Poe
Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe's contributions to American literature have become increasingly more prominent as the years have passed. As short fiction has become a more accepted genre in literary circles, Poe's theories are studied with more passion. Although he lived a rather melancholy existence, Poe did experience moments of joy, and desired to capture beauty through poetical form. Indeed, what he left behind for the literary world was his gifted genius, revealed through his poetry, fiction, and criticism. The darkness that seemed to surround Poe's life began as an infant. Poe was born January 19,1809 in Boston Massachusetts, the second son of David and Eliza Poe. Soon afterward, ...
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with Poe, John Allan ensured that he had a Brassfield 2 quality education. While in living in England with the Allans, he attended private academies and continued his education in private schools when they returned to the states. Poe enrolled at the University of Virginia in 1826. While there, he accumulated a large debt. He appealed to John Allan to repay the debts but Allan refused. He believed that Poe was in debt due to gambling and his addiction to alcohol (Silverman 29-38). The greatest contributor to Poe's despair would have to be his self-inflicted addiction to alcohol. His foster family's social status made his alcoholism a shameful vice, and a source of conflict. Using it as an escape of sorts, Poe's life was greatly affected by the substance, disrupting his work, his first engagement, and his time with his foster family. After he left his family, he tried to make a life in Boston, where he found his relatives poor, but giving. Reunited with his brother, William, Poe ...
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a great lyric poet'" (522). The criticism of his poetry and writing was a direct criticism on his theories, as he implemented his theories in all of his writing. As Charles E. May notes, "Poe's demand that inner coherence rather than external correspondence be the criteria by which to judge the artwork and his identification of 'plot' with form played a significant role in the creation of his own fiction and the development of his thought" (117). His "The Philosophy of Composition" and "The Poetical Principle" are two pieces of criticism, which will be forever debated. Essentially, Poe believed that length was extremely important. Poe said, "If any literary work is too long to be read ...
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