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Why Is Edgar Allan Poe's Dark Romanticism

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Despite their differences, writers and poets alike have seemed to have the same muse for creativity, all belonging to one literary movement. This muse seemed to be romanticism, which started in the late 1700’s and ended in the late 1800’s. This era of writing produced some of the world’s greatest writers and poets. Some seemed to stand out more the others, such as Nathaniel Hawthorne and Percy Bysshe Shelly, while others, Edgar Allen Poe, stuck out like a sore thumb.
Edgar Allen Poe’s work is mostly known for it’s dark romanticism, which is a subgenre of romanticism, plots. But this is what makes him stick out over the other writers and poets of the era. This type of writing focused on the individual narrating the story and the human predisposition
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