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| + | [[Image:The Raven.jpg|thumb|left|200px|In 1963, [[Roger Corman]] directed ''[[The Raven (1963 film)|The Raven]]'', a [[horror-comedy]] written by [[Richard Matheson]] very loosely based on the poem, "[[The Raven]]" by [[Edgar Allan Poe]]. It stars [[Vincent Price]], [[Peter Lorre]], and [[Boris Karloff]] as a trio of rival [[Magic (paranormal)|sorcerers]].]] | ||
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| | style="text-align: left;" |"The [[mind]] of man can [[imagination|imagine]] nothing which has not really [[Existence|existed]] [[The mind of man can imagine nothing which has not really existed|[...]]]." --[[Edgar Allan Poe]] | | style="text-align: left;" |"The [[mind]] of man can [[imagination|imagine]] nothing which has not really [[Existence|existed]] [[The mind of man can imagine nothing which has not really existed|[...]]]." --[[Edgar Allan Poe]] | ||
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| + | "Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether [[madness]] is or is not the loftiest [[intelligence]] -- whether much that is glorious- whether all that is profound -- does not spring from disease of thought -- from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect." --"[[Eleonora (short story)|Eleonora]]" | ||
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| + | "We who are speakers of English and not English scholars, who were born into the language and from childhood pickled in its literature - we can only say, with all due respect, that [[Baudelaire]], [[Mallarmé]] and [[Valéry]] are wrong and that [[Edgar Allan Poe|Poe]] is not one of our major poets." --Aldous Huxley in "[[Vulgarity in Literature]]" (1930) | ||
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| [[Image:Edgar Allan Poe.jpg|thumb|right|200px|A [[daguerreotype]] of [[Edgar Allan Poe]]'']] | [[Image:Edgar Allan Poe.jpg|thumb|right|200px|A [[daguerreotype]] of [[Edgar Allan Poe]]'']] | ||
| - | [[Image:The Raven.jpg|thumb|right|200px|In 1963, [[Roger Corman]] directed ''[[The Raven (1963 film)|The Raven]]'', a [[horror-comedy]] written by [[Richard Matheson]] very loosely based on the poem, "[[The Raven]]" by [[Edgar Allan Poe]]. It stars [[Vincent Price]], [[Peter Lorre]], and [[Boris Karloff]] as a trio of rival [[Magic (paranormal)|sorcerers]].]] | ||
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| '''Edgar Allan Poe''' ([[January 19]], [[1809]] – [[October 7]], [[1849]]) was an [[American writer]], and one of the leaders of the [[American Romanticism]]. Best known for his [[tale]]s of the [[macabre]] and [[mystery]], Poe was one of the early American practitioners of the [[short story]] and a progenitor of [[detective fiction]] and [[crime fiction]]. During his lifetime he was more popular in France (thanks to the translations of [[Baudelaire]]) than in his native country. After his premature death at the age of 40 he became internationally renowned. The Japanese writer [[Edogawa Rampo]] derived his pseudonym of his name. He came to the attention of 20th century audiences via the [[Price, Corman and Poe|low-budget film adaptations by Roger Corman starring Vincent Price]]. | '''Edgar Allan Poe''' ([[January 19]], [[1809]] – [[October 7]], [[1849]]) was an [[American writer]], and one of the leaders of the [[American Romanticism]]. Best known for his [[tale]]s of the [[macabre]] and [[mystery]], Poe was one of the early American practitioners of the [[short story]] and a progenitor of [[detective fiction]] and [[crime fiction]]. During his lifetime he was more popular in France (thanks to the translations of [[Baudelaire]]) than in his native country. After his premature death at the age of 40 he became internationally renowned. The Japanese writer [[Edogawa Rampo]] derived his pseudonym of his name. He came to the attention of 20th century audiences via the [[Price, Corman and Poe|low-budget film adaptations by Roger Corman starring Vincent Price]]. | ||
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| ===Selected list of works=== | ===Selected list of works=== | ||
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| '''Tales''' | '''Tales''' | ||
| - | *"[[Berenice (short story)|Berenice]]" | + | * "[[The Black Cat (short story)|The Black Cat]]" |
| - | *"[[The Black Cat (short story)|The Black Cat]]" | + | * "[[The Cask of Amontillado]]" |
| - | *"[[The Cask of Amontillado]]" | + | * "[[A Descent into the Maelström]]" |
| - | *"[[The Fall of the House of Usher]]" | + | * "[[The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar]]" |
| - | *"[[The Gold-Bug]]" | + | * "[[The Fall of the House of Usher]]" |
| - | *"[[Loss of Breath]]" | + | * "[[The Gold-Bug]]" |
| - | *"[[Hop-Frog]]" | + | * "[[Hop-Frog]]" |
| - | *"[[Ligeia]]" | + | * "[[The Imp of the Perverse (short story)|The Imp of the Perverse]]" |
| - | *"[[The Man of the Crowd (short story)|The Man of the Crowd]]" | + | * "[[Ligeia]]" |
| - | *"[[The Masque of the Red Death]]" | + | * "[[The Masque of the Red Death]]" |
| - | *"[[The Murders in the Rue Morgue]]" | + | * "[[Morella (short story)|Morella]]" |
| - | *"[[The Pit and the Pendulum]]" | + | * "[[The Murders in the Rue Morgue]]" |
| - | *"[[The Purloined Letter]]" | + | * "[[The Oval Portrait]]" |
| - | *"[[The Tell-Tale Heart]]" | + | * "[[The Pit and the Pendulum]]" |
| + | * "[[The Premature Burial]]" | ||
| + | * "[[The Purloined Letter]]" | ||
| + | * "[[The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether]]" | ||
| + | * "[[The Tell-Tale Heart]]" | ||
| + | * "[[Loss of Breath (tale)]]" | ||
| '''Poetry''' | '''Poetry''' | ||
| - | *"[[A Dream Within A Dream]]" | + | * "[[Al Aaraaf]]" |
| - | *"[[Annabel Lee]]" | + | * "[[Annabel Lee]]" |
| - | *"[[The Bells]]" | + | * "[[The Bells (poem)|The Bells]]" |
| - | *"[[The City in the Sea]]" | + | * "[[The City in the Sea]]" |
| - | *"[[The Conqueror Worm]]" | + | * "[[The Conqueror Worm]]" |
| - | *"[[Eldorado (poem)|Eldorado]]" | + | * "[[A Dream Within a Dream]]" |
| - | *"[[The Haunted Palace (poem)|The Haunted Palace]]" | + | * "[[Eldorado (poem)|Eldorado]]" |
| - | *"[[Lenore]]" | + | * "[[Eulalie]]" |
| - | *"[[The Raven]]" | + | * "[[The Haunted Palace (poem)|The Haunted Palace]]" |
| - | *"[[Ulalume]]" | + | * "[[To Helen]]" |
| - | + | * "[[Lenore]]" | |
| - | '''Other Works''' | + | * "[[Tamerlane (poem)|Tamerlane]]" |
| - | *''[[The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket]]'' – Poe's only complete novel | + | * "[[The Raven]]" |
| - | *"[[The Philosophy of Composition]]" – Essay | + | * "[[Ulalume]]" |
| - | *''[[Eureka (Edgar Allan Poe)|Eureka]]'' – Essay | + | |
| - | *"[[The Balloon-Hoax]]" – A journalistic [[hoax]] printed as a true story | + | |
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| - | '''Collections''' | + | |
| - | Please note that this list of collections refers only to those printed during Poe's lifetime with his permission. Modern anthologies are not included. | + | '''Other works''' |
| - | * ''[[Tamerlane and Other Poems]]'' (credited by "a Bostonian") (1827) | + | * ''[[Politian (play)|Politian]]'' (1835) – Poe's only play |
| - | * ''Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems'' (1829) | + | * ''[[The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket]]'' (1838) – Poe's only complete novel |
| - | * ''Poems'' (1831, printed as "second edition") | + | * "[[The Balloon-Hoax]]" (1844) – A journalistic [[hoax]] printed as a true story |
| - | * ''[[Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque]]'' (December 1839) | + | * "[[The Philosophy of Composition]]" (1846) – Essay |
| - | * ''The Prose Romances of Edgar A. Poe'' (1843) | + | * ''[[Eureka: A Prose Poem]]'' (1848) – Essay |
| - | * ''Tales'' (1845, Wiley & Putnam) | + | * "[[The Poetic Principle]]" (1848) – Essay |
| - | * ''The Raven and Other Poems'' (1845, Wiley & Putnam) | + | * "[[The Light-House]]" (1849) – Poe's last incomplete work |
| ==Literary influence== | ==Literary influence== | ||
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| "The mind of man can imagine nothing which has not really existed [...]." --Edgar Allan Poe
"Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence -- whether much that is glorious- whether all that is profound -- does not spring from disease of thought -- from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect." --"Eleonora" "We who are speakers of English and not English scholars, who were born into the language and from childhood pickled in its literature - we can only say, with all due respect, that Baudelaire, Mallarmé and Valéry are wrong and that Poe is not one of our major poets." --Aldous Huxley in "Vulgarity in Literature" (1930) |
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Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, and one of the leaders of the American Romanticism. Best known for his tales of the macabre and mystery, Poe was one of the early American practitioners of the short story and a progenitor of detective fiction and crime fiction. During his lifetime he was more popular in France (thanks to the translations of Baudelaire) than in his native country. After his premature death at the age of 40 he became internationally renowned. The Japanese writer Edogawa Rampo derived his pseudonym of his name. He came to the attention of 20th century audiences via the low-budget film adaptations by Roger Corman starring Vincent Price.
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Bibliography
Works on Poe
Selected list of works
Selected list of works
Tales
- "The Black Cat"
- "The Cask of Amontillado"
- "A Descent into the Maelström"
- "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar"
- "The Fall of the House of Usher"
- "The Gold-Bug"
- "Hop-Frog"
- "The Imp of the Perverse"
- "Ligeia"
- "The Masque of the Red Death"
- "Morella"
- "The Murders in the Rue Morgue"
- "The Oval Portrait"
- "The Pit and the Pendulum"
- "The Premature Burial"
- "The Purloined Letter"
- "The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether"
- "The Tell-Tale Heart"
- "Loss of Breath (tale)"
Poetry
- "Al Aaraaf"
- "Annabel Lee"
- "The Bells"
- "The City in the Sea"
- "The Conqueror Worm"
- "A Dream Within a Dream"
- "Eldorado"
- "Eulalie"
- "The Haunted Palace"
- "To Helen"
- "Lenore"
- "Tamerlane"
- "The Raven"
- "Ulalume"
Other works
- Politian (1835) – Poe's only play
- The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838) – Poe's only complete novel
- "The Balloon-Hoax" (1844) – A journalistic hoax printed as a true story
- "The Philosophy of Composition" (1846) – Essay
- Eureka: A Prose Poem (1848) – Essay
- "The Poetic Principle" (1848) – Essay
- "The Light-House" (1849) – Poe's last incomplete work
Literary influence
Poe's works have had a broad influence on American and world literature (sometimes even despite those who tried to resist it), and even on the art world beyond literature. The scope of Poe's influence on art is evident when one sees the many and diverse artists who were directly and profoundly influenced by him.
- Bibliography of Edgar Allan Poe
- Edgar Allan Poe in popular culture, Poe as a character
- Edgar Allan Poe in television and film, Poe's oeuvre adapted for the screen
- Edgar Allan Poe and music, musical adaptations of his works
See also
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