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Edgar Allan Poe
Author · Journalist · 1809–1849
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About Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic whose macabre fiction and poetry helped shape the modern short story and detective tale. Through works such as “The Raven,” “The Fall of the House of Usher,” and “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” he developed tightly controlled effects of suspense, terror, and psychological intensity. His criticism emphasized deliberate structure and the unity of emotional effect, making him an important theorist as well as a major literary innovator.
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Read quote → ✓Source verified“Man is an animal that diddles, and there is no animal that diddles but man.”
Read quote → ✓Source verified“Babbage, and if we choose to call the former a pure machine we must be prepared to admit that it is, beyond all comparison, the most wonderful of the inventions of mankind.”
Read quote → ✓Source verified“There is then no analogy whatever between the operations of the Chess-Player, and those of the calculating machine of Mr.”
Read quote → ✓Source verified“It is with literature as with law or empire — an established name is an estate in tenure, or a throne in possession.”
Read quote → ✓Source verified“Had the routine of our life at this place been known to the world, we should have been regarded as madmen —; although, perhaps, as madmen of a harmless nature.”
Read quote →“The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague.”
Read quote → ✓Source verified“Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?”
Read quote → ✓Source verified“They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
