Poems by Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe was a well known American writer, a superlative author of poetry and fiction, and a literary critic whose level of imagination and insight had gone unseen in American literature. Many would say Edgar Allan Poe managed to create a fulfilling and adventurous life before passing at 40, having been said in his lifetime to have wrote around 73 short stories and 53 poems including “The Raven” and “The Bells” (Kinsella). Even though Edgar wrote beautifully, he had a very hard time as as a child with his family and school effecting nearly everything for him. By age three Edgar was an orphan, along with his two siblings, and taken in by John Allan after his father took off while his mother laid on her deathbed. …show more content…
Baudelaire spent almost fourteen years translating Poe's writing into French. Poe is remembered as one of the first American writers to become a major figure in literature. He was one of the first critics to focus mainly on the effect of style and structure in literary, he has been seen as the one to start the “art for art’s sake” movement. In addition to him being a creator of horror tales, Poe is also given credit to being in two other genres: science fiction and the detective stories. In the poems “The Unparalleled Adventure of Hans Pfaall” and “Von Kempelen and His Discovery”, Poe took advantage of the fascination for science that come up in the early nineteenth century and became speculative that are considered a type of literature that did not become well known practiced until the twentieth …show more content…
These stories include “The Black Cat”, “The Cask of Amontillado”, and “The Tell-Tale Heart”, often told by a first-person narrator, and through this voice Poe probes the a character's psyche. In his Gothic tales Poe employed a symbolic method that he gives to poems such as “The Fall of the House of Usher”, “The Masque of the Red Death”, and “Ligeia”, an mysterious quality that peaks their interest. Poe was also interested in using the interest in science to peak his interest in readers, and draw them into his