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Essay Archive - The Life and Work of Edgar Allen Poe
The Life and Work of Edgar Allen Poe
The life of Poe is the most melodramatic of any of the major American
writers of his generation. In Poe's poems, like his tales, his characters
are tortured by nameless fears and longings. In both form and content
Poe's early poetry is typically Romantic although of an unusually limited
range. Today Poe is acclaimed as one of America's greatest writers, but in
his own unhappy lifetimes he knew little but failure. Poe's characters as
well as his plots are set in a negative satirical way, such as Poe led most
of his life. Poe's personality and faults seemed to be reflected in the
stru....
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