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Edgar Allan Poc (1809-1849)

Major works:

“Tamerlane and Other Poems” (1827)

“Poems by Edgar A. Poe” (1831)

“Tales ofthe Grotesąue and Arabesąue ” (1840)

Literary theory:

“The Philosophy of Composition” (1846)

“The Poetic Principle ” (1848)

Short stories:

“The Fali ofthe House of Usher"

“The Black Car

“The Cask of Amontillado"

“Murders in the Rue Morgue”

“The Raven” - the poem

Poe’s contributions to American literaturę:

•    The emergence of the short stoiy as a popular and respected literary form,

•    Iiwention of a detective story and development of psychological tlirillers,

•    The idea of a 'unique or single effect’,

•    ‘Poems are created of words, not of emotions’,

•    He saw literary works as aristocratic creations, deprived of any didacticism; for liim the ultimate goal of art is aesthetic.