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The main American predecessor of Poe, Melville, and Hawthorne was Charles Brockden Brown. Although Wieland, or The Transformation is his best-known work, I think Edgar Huntly and Ormond are equally or more arresting and often better written.
I think you'd also like some Robert Louis Stevenson, esp. "The Suicide Club" and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Another author who might prove interesting is J.-K. Huysmans.
A couple of current authors you'd probably want to check out are Chuck Palahniuk and Will Self. Mark Leyner (My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist, etc.) is also pretty dark, demented, and sardonic, but I'm not sure you'll really remember his books once you've read them. But why not try 'em?
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The Black Catelisaevedent wrote:What was Edgar Allen Poe's work that received major recognition?
The Tell-Tale Heart
The Premature Burial
All very good reads!
-- 08 Nov 2012, 16:59 --
Can anybody give me a quick summary of what Edgar Allan Poe's poem 'Alone' is about?
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I think to really appreciate Poe you need to take a hard look at his poetry - it is absolute genius incarnate. That's not me talking, that's every critic who has ever read it. I mentioned before in another thread that his poem The Bells is considered by all critics of note (past and present) to be the finest "sound poem" in the English language.elisaevedent wrote:What was Edgar Allen Poe's work that received major recognition?
I was, in fact, so taken by the quality of Poe's poetry that I memorized The Raven just for the hell of it when I was fourteen years old and a freshman in high school. Imagine my surprise when the teacher gave us an assignment to memorize a poem to recite before the class and I already had it done. Eighteen stanzas, and I aced it, "word perfectly". I can almost still do it but the old memory isn't what it used to be. *LOL*
My Favorites of Poe's Poems:
Annabelle Lee
The Raven
The Bells
― Steven Wright
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I've always loved Poe's peotry, my favourite of his is probably Annabelle Lee.
The Raven always brings to mind this poem which, believe it or not, I used to able to do a damn fine recitation of (if I say so myself!). Isn't it truly amazing how poetry stays in the old grey matter?
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Fran,Fran wrote:@DATo
I've always loved Poe's peotry, my favourite of his is probably Annabelle Lee.
The Raven always brings to mind this poem which, believe it or not, I used to able to do a damn fine recitation of (if I say so myself!). Isn't it truly amazing how poetry stays in the old grey matter?
poemhunter.com/poem/the-ballad-of-the-l ... ack-hound/
The man was PROFOUNDLY gifted in the art of verse, and it seems to flow from him with such effortlessness ease as to stagger the imagination of mere mortals like myself.
Alliteration : ( from The Raven )
And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain ...
Combining Internal rhyme & alliteration on the S sound: (from Annabelle Lee )
And neither the angels in Heaven above, nor the demons down under the sea
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul of the beautiful Annabelle Lee
This one small example below perhaps serves to illustrate WHY The Bells is considered the most perfect sound poem in the English language. : Alternating alliteration on the K & S sounds, drawing them closer in the second and third lines, then merging them fully at the end, in the word "crystalline" in one syllable!!! .... WOW !!! .... Hard enough to just find such lyrically complementary words, much less install them into a perfectly phrased stanza that also perfectly captures the essence of the theme. He was truly a very rare genius that comes once in an age. (from The Bells )
How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle in the icy air of night
While the stars that oversprinkle
All the heavens, seem to twinkle
With a crystalline delight
A critic once wrote of this entire poem - "The Bells is a poem that transcends art - it approaches magic."
PS: Liked the poem you linked to. Very much in the Poe tradition.
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Strange the things that are now reproduced, I saw yet another dvd release of Nosferatu the other day with a different soundtrack again... weird world we live in these days.
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Does anyone have a source for this claim?
I have always loved Poe's poetry, but I was unaware that it is critically lauded.
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Yes, washing out at West Point, the accusations of alcoholism, deaths: his life was a mess. Apparently there was periodic concern about day to day survival--he was only paid $10 for The Raven.AsHlEy94 wrote:Edgar Allen Poe is one of my favorite writers. His life was a mess, and many of his stories are revisions of his life, in some form or fashion.
I'd have to say I like Poe, and I've read him completely; but not a favorite.