Edgar Allan Poe: American novelist of Horror and Detective Fiction

Dear Students,

Poe’s work as an editor, a poet, and a critic had a profound impact on American and international literature. His stories mark him as one of the originators of both horror and detective fiction. Many anthologies credit him as the “architect” of the modern short story. He was also one of the first critics to focus primarily on the effect of style and structure in a literary work; as such, he has been seen as a forerunner to the “art for art’s sake” movement. French Symbolists such as Mallarmé and Rimbaud claimed him as a literary precursor. Baudelaire spent nearly fourteen years translating Poe into French. Today, Poe is remembered as one of the first American writers to become a major figure in world literature.
(source: https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/edgar-allan-poe)

We have read short stories and poetry by Edgar Allan Poe.
Please feel free to discover more.

you can watch Four Animations of Classic Poe Stories:
http://www.openculture.com/2015/04/edgar-allan-poe-animated-watch-four-animations-of-timeless-poe-stories.html
you can enjoy “The Raven” which is on Instagram as a Digital “Insta Novel”: It’s Free from The New York Public Library:
https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4999733240380311327#editor/target=post;postID=7671748560641142658

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