高一英美文学爱伦坡乌鸦EdgarAllenoeandheRavenPPT课件
Lecture 2 Edgar Allan Poe 埃德加·爱伦·坡
The Rocky Mountains
❖Long Tales
▪ The Gold-Bug (1843) ▪ Hans Phaall (1850) ▪ The Murders In The Rue Morgue (1841) ▪ The Mystery Of Marie Roget --- A Sequel To
About the man…
Married life…
In 1836 Edgar married his young cousin, Virginia Clemm.
She died in 1847. They had no children.
❖In his latter years, Poe was interested in several women. They included the poetess, Mrs. Sarah Helen Whitman, Mrs. Charles Richmond, and the widow, Mrs. Sarah Elmira Shelton, whom he had known in his boyhood as Miss Royster.
His famous poetry
❖ Alone ❖The City In the Sea Sleeper ❖ Lenore ❖ The Valley of Unrest ❖ The Haunted Palace ❖ The Raven ❖To Helen ❖Annabel Lee ❖ The Conqueror Worm ❖ Ulalume ❖A Valentine ❖ Eldorado
❖As Edgar grew older, he became involved in drinking and gambling. He was discharged from the Army for his neglect of duty. John Allan was so disappointed with Edgar, he cut him off and never had contact again.
Edgar Allan Poe 介绍PPT课件
“rhythmical creation of beauty.”
阿尼兊斯特英国文学史纲detectivestory10gothicstoryreddeath红死病的假面舞会ovalportrait椭囿形画像usedup被用光的人kingpest瘟疫王11detectivestorythouarturloinedletter被窃之信marieroget玛丽罗杰疑案ruemorgue莫格街谋杀案oblongbox长方形箱子12poetryhelen致海伦13iiihistoricalpositionmostfamousamericanpoetsfictionistsliteraturecritics
Bruce bulls(安布鲁斯·布尔斯) and Howard Phillips Lovecraft（洛夫 克拉夫特 ）as the most famous three horror fictionists .
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Poe is a great writer of fiction, a poet of the first rank, and a critic of insight
a short story writer
his tales are "complete works of art"
a poet
his poetry is “exquisitely refined“( 精致优雅)
a critic
"the greatest journalistic critic of
爱伦坡-乌鸦-Edgar-Allen-Poe-and-The-Raven
The Philosophy of Composition 《创作原理》 The Poetic Principle 《诗歌原则》
Themes
1. death – predominant theme
“Poe is not interested in anything alive. Everything in Poe’s writings is dead.”
2. He is the father of psychoanalytic(心理 分析的) criticism.
3. He is the father of the detective story.
The analysis of some
images
in The Raven
The raven and the demon
an evil genius
Emerson: "the jingle man"
Whitman: “its narrow range and unhealthy, lurid quality” (不丰富的选 材和不健康、可怕的质量)
He was understood by critics and other writers in America.
乌鸦诗
秋思 马致远 枯藤老树昏鸦，小桥 流水人家。 古道西风瘦马，夕阳 西下，断肠人在天涯。
秋思 白朴 孤村落日残霞,轻烟老 树寒鸦一点飞虹影下, 青山绿水,白草红叶黄 花。
Meaning changing
Actually before Tang dynasty the raven had a meaning of luck and people thought they were prophets, but after Tang the raven has become an ill-omen
Edgar Allan Poe 英语专业教学课件
2) Life
• Famous American Poet, short-story writer and critic.
• Poe’s childhood was a miserable one. He lost both of his parents when still very small. His parents were actors.
《乌鸦》 《伊斯拉菲尔》
《致海伦 》ቤተ መጻሕፍቲ ባይዱ
《安娜贝尔• 李》
《诗歌原理》 k) The Poetic Principle l) The Philosophy of Composition
《创作 哲学》
His theory on poems
• Poem should be short , concise and readable at one sitting;
• Poe’s reputation was first made in France. Charles Baudelaire said that “Edgar Poe, who isn’t much in America, must become a great man in France.”
Poe’s theories on Fiction
• A good fiction should only tells one event, which can be finished once.
• Fiction should stimulate readers and impress them deeply. It should have a consistent effect throughout the whole text.
edgar allan poe 爱伦坡简介 ppt课件
《亚瑟.戈登.皮姆的故事》
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A: poetry
made Poe famous as a poet
1 The Raven (1844) 《乌鸦》
2 Annabel Lee 《安娜贝尔丽》 3 The Sleeper 《睡美人》
An unhappy youth: at 17 went to the University of Virginia but did not finish, an appointment to West Point but was dismissed （fired）less than a year later
15 The Masque of the Red Death
《红色死亡的化妆舞会》
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C: Literary theory
The Poetic Principle <诗歌原理> The Philosophy of Composition
<创作哲学> Review of Twice-Told Tales
edgar allan poe 爱伦坡简介 ppt课件
A poet, short story writer, and literary critic
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Poe’s mother
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Edgar Allan Poe（1809—
1849）埃德加.爱伦.坡
Part I. Life Experience Part II. Major Works Part III.Literary Position Part IV.Appreciation Part ments on Poe
大学 美国文学之爱伦坡ppt课件
维琴妮亚用温柔与爱启示爱伦坡写成了很多最优美的诗句， 其中就有那篇不朽的名年的时间，可是仅卖了十块钱。这 件事立刻在当地传为最大的笑话，爱伦坡成为了公认的弱智 与无能之辈。许多人都为自己能够识别出一个白痴而骄傲， 感觉自己与相中良马的伯乐一样出色(但是他们犯了最大的 错误，今天这首诗的原稿已售价数万美元)。
Beauty is truth and leads to spiritual oneness and artistic integrity
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The Raven
爱伦·坡的长诗《乌鸦》发表于1845年。诗作发表之后引起轰 动，有出版商请著名的插画家Gustave Doré为这首长诗创作了 25幅插画。
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很快我的心变得坚强；不再犹疑，不再彷徨， “先生，”我说，“或夫人，我求你多多包涵； 刚才我正睡意昏昏，而你来敲门又那么轻， 你来敲门又那么轻，轻轻叩击我的房门， 我差点以为没听见你”——说着我拉开门扇；—— 唯有黑夜，别无他般。
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凝视着夜色幽幽，我站在门边惊惧良久， 疑惑中似乎梦见从前没人敢梦见的梦幻； 可那未被打破的寂静，没显示任何迹象。 “丽诺尔？”便是我嗫嚅念叨的唯一字眼， 我念叨“丽诺尔！”，回声把这名字轻轻送还， 唯此而已，别无他般。
体弱的维琴妮亚终究敌不过饥寒交迫，在一个寒冷的冬夜， 带着令人感动的爱去了。失去了爱妻，爱伦坡几乎崩溃了， 惟一支撑他的只有成功的信念了。在爱妻的坟墓旁，他强 忍着泪水和思念，拿着笔，一刻也不放下，他用尽一切气 力，投身于创作。从白天到夜晚，从夜晚到梦中，从梦中 又到白天……终于，使他写出了感人肺腑的《爱的称颂》。 爱伦坡终于迎来了成功。
4. The creation of work of art requires the utmost concentration and unity, as well as the most scrupulous use of words.
埃德加爱伦坡的介绍实用PPT文档
Edgar Allan Poe
• In 1836, Poe, then 27, married his 13-year- Poe was never coherent long enough to explain how he came to be in his dire condition, and, oddly, was wearing clothes that were
not his own.
old cousin, Virginia Then enlisted in the Army and later failing as an officer's cadet at West Point.
the inventor of the detective fiction genre. In 1836, Poe, then 27, married his 13-year-old cousin, Virginia Clemm.
• he was orphaned Edgar Allan Poe is buried in Baltimore, Maryland.
Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe
young when his Then enlisted in the Army and later failing as an officer's cadet at West Point.
after his father Edgar Allan Poe
he was orphaned young when his mother died shortly after his father abandoned the family.
abandoned the family. Poe was taken in by John Allan.
最新爱伦坡及其诗歌赏析--Ellen-Poe课件ppt
Questions on "To Helen"
1. Although the poem is about a real person, is lines written in passionate boyhood to the first purely and ideal woman in his soul, Poe addressed it to Helen, why might he have done this?
爱伦坡及其诗歌赏析--Ellen-Poe
Poe’s Theories on Poetry
His poetry express the same deep hopelessness and rejection of the world as his prose, but in a different way. Expressed in his works
4. The creation of work of art requires the utmost concentration and unity, as well as the most scrupulous use of words.
To Helen
Stanza 1 The poet first mentioned Helen, the most famous
Stanza 2
All the art and literature originated from one thing---beauty. Having taken Helen as the embodiment of beauty, the poet was confident that once he saw Helen, he was sure to be led by Helen to the home of beauty---fine and pure literature. Poe insisted that Greece and Rome are the homes of beauty, the treasure houses of fine art and literature.
The Raven乌鸦PPT课件
• Alcohol all his life and died in the street
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2. The beauty in the poem
especially the beautiful creatures’, and
without doubt the most poetic ”
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• In The Raven, when the man asked
whether he could meet his lost beloved in
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• 于是这只黑鸟把我悲伤的幻觉哄骗成微笑， 以它那老成持重一本正经温文尔雅的容颜， “冠毛虽被剪除”，我说，“但你显然不是懦夫， 你这幽灵般可怕的古鸦，漂泊来自夜的彼岸， 请告诉我你尊姓大名，在黑沉沉的冥府阴间！” 乌鸦答曰“永不复焉”。 听见如此直率的回答，我对这丑鸟感到惊讶， 尽管它的回答不着边际——与提问几乎无关； 因为我们不得不承认，从来没有活着的世人 曾如此有幸地看见一只鸟栖在他房门的上面， 看见鸟或兽栖在他房门上方的半身雕像上面， 而且名叫“永不复焉”。
Main points
• An elegy • A lamentation over the death of a
beautiful woman by a man with a mysterious raven • 108 lines, readable at one sitting
美国文学欣赏Edgar_Allan_Poe(课堂PPT)
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In America
• Emerson: “the jingle man” (noisy)
• Mark Twain: His prose is unreadable.
musical effect of words themselves) • Negligence of so-called truth and social, political and
moral suggestions • “Pure poetry” or “pure art” • Unity of effect and atmosphere; content in service of
• Most controversial and misunderstood in America • Well received in Europe, England, Spain, esp. in France • Literary output:
some seventy short stories and a dozen poems • A: Poems • B: Short stories • C: literary theory • D: one full-length novel:
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（1809—1849）埃德加.爱伦.坡
高中英语课文阅读TheRaven乌鸦
The Raven 乌鸦Edgar Allen PoeOnce upon a midnight dreadry, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door."'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door; Only this, and nothing more."Ah, distinctly I remember, it was in the bleak December,And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Eagerly I wished the morrow; vainly I had sought to borrow From my books surcease of surrow, sorrow for the lostLenore,. For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore, Nameless here forevermore.And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain Tilled me---filled me with fantastic terrors never feltbefore;So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating,"'Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamberdoor,Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door.This is it, and nothing more."Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer,"Sir," said I, "or madam, truly your forgiveness I implore; But the fact is, I was napping, and so gently you came rapping, And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at mycham-ber door, That I scarce was sure I heard you." Here I opened wide the door;--- Darkness there, and nothing more.Deep into the darkness peering, long I stood there, won- dering, fearing Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before;Butthe silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token,And the only word there spoken was the whispered word,"Lenore?",This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word, "Lenore!" Merely this, and nothing more.Back into the chamber turning, all my soul within me burning,Soon again I heard a tapping,something louderthan before, "Surely," said I, "surely, that is something at my window lattice.Let me see, then, what thereat is, and this mystery explore.Let my heart be still a moment, and this mystery explore.'Tis the wind, and nothing more."Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter, In there stepped a stately raven, of the saintly days of yore.Not the least obeisance made he; not a minute stopped or stayed he; But with mien of lord or lady, perched above my cham-ber door.Perched upon a bust of Pallas, just above my chamberdoor,Perched, and sat, and nothing more.Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling, By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore, "Though thy crest be shorn and shaven thou," I said, "artsureno craven, Ghastly, grim, and ancient raven, wandering from the nightly shore.Tell me what the lordly name is on the Night's Pluton-ian shore."Quoth the raven, "Nevermore."Much I marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly,Though its answer little meaning, little relevancy bore;For we cannot help agreeing that no living human being Ever yet was blessed with seeing bird above his cham- ber door, Bird or beast upon the sculptured bust above his cham- ber door,With such name as "Nevermore."But the raven, sitting lonely on that placid bust, spoke only That one word, as if his soul in that one word he didoutpour.Nothing further then he uttered; not a feather then he fluttered;Till I scarcely more than muttered,"Other friends have flown before;On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before."Then the bird said,"Nevermore."startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly spoken,"Doubtless," said I, "what it utters is its only stock andstore,Caught from some unhappy master, whom unmerciful disaster Followed fast and followed faster, till his songs one burden bore,--- Till the dirges of his hope that melancholy burden bore Of "Never---nevermore."But the raven still beguiling all my fancy into smiling, Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird and bust and door;,Then, upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird ofyore,What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yore Meant in croaking, "Nevermore."Thus I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing To the fowl, whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom's core; This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease re- clining On the cushion's velvet lining that the lamplight gloated o'er, But whose velvet violet lining with the lamplight gloating o'er She shall press, ah, nevermore!Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from anunseen censer Swung by seraphim whose footfalls tinkled on the tufted floor."Wretch," I cried, "thy God hath lent thee -- by these angels he hath sent thee Respite---respite and nepenthe from thy memories of Lenore!Quaff, O quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore!"Quoth the raven, "Nevermore!""Prophet!" said I, "thing of evil!--prophet still, if bird or devil!Whether tempter sent, or whether tempest tossed thee here ashore, Desolate, yet all undaunted, on this desert land enchanted--On this home by horror haunted--tell me truly, I implore: Is there--is there balm in Gilead?--tell me--tell me I im-plore!"Quoth the raven, "Nevermore.""Prophet!" said I, "thing of evil--prophet still, if bird or devil!By that heaven that bends above us--by that God we both adore--Tell this soul with sorrow laden, if, within the distant Aidenn,It shall clasp a sainted maiden, whom the angels name Lenore--- Clasp a rare and radiant maiden, whom the angels name Lenore?Quoth the raven, "Nevermore.""Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!' I shrieked, upstarting--"Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Pluton- ian shore!Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken!Leave my loneliness unbroken! -- quit the bust above my door!Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!"Quoth the raven, "Nevermore."And the raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door; And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming.And the lamplight o'er him streaming throws the shadow on the floor; And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted---nevermore!。
爱伦坡ppt课件
•《陷阱与钟摆》（The Pit and the Pendulum）
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诗
《艾尔·阿拉夫》（Al Aaraaf）
《安娜贝尔·李》（Annabel Lee）
《钟声》（The Bells）
《海中之城》（The City in the Sea）
《The Conqueror Worm》
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• Education: finished his elementary education in London, studied in the University of Virginia for one year. Then he dropped out because of excessive drinking.
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• Birth:1809.1.19, born in Boston • Family: his mother is a charming and
talented actress, while his father is ordinary and incapable. They both died when he was about three years old. Then he was adopted by the Allens .
• The atmosphere of the work is doom
and gloom, the rhetoric is beautiful
and full of pretty rhyme. Sometic.
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• Critics put him in the romantic period, gothic period, dispirited period, and symbolic period.
Edgar Allan Poe演讲PPT
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym
Jul 1838 This was Poe's first and only complete novel. The Theme in this book is the theme of his life and his other books, Death.
The Tell-Tale Heart 1843
"The Tell-Tale Heart" is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1843."The Tell-Tale Heart" is widely considered a classic of the Gothic fiction genre and is one of Poe's most famous short stories.
1831 Poe Leaves West Point by being court-marshaled and decides to pursue his dreams
of becoming a writer.
1836
Edgar Poe marries his cousin Virginia in May. She was 13,and Poe was 27.
edgar allan poe 爱伦坡简介 ppt课件.ppt
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Themes in Poe’s works
Death—predominant theme in Poe’s writing “Poe is not interested in anything alive. Everything in Poe’s writings is dead.”
Edgar Allan Poe 爱伦·坡
(1809—1849)
杜亚芳
A poet, short story writer, and literary critic
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Poe’s mother
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Edgar Allan Poe（1809—
1849）埃德加.爱伦.坡
Part I. Life Experience Part II. Major Works Part III.Literary Position Part IV.Appreciation Part ments on Poe
Horror；Hidden evil: Unspeakable, mysterious crimes, including incest and parricide
Maniacal Laughter（crazy） The discovered manuscript
gives responsibility to someone else Deformity（畸形）
【希腊神话】林木女神
月亮女神
【希腊、罗马神话】 那伊阿得(掌管河、泉 的水泽女神)
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Part ments on Poe
Emerson dismissed him in three words “the jingle man” (打油诗人)，Mark Twain declared his prose to be unreadable. And Whitman was the only famous literary figure present at the Poe Memorial Ceremony in 1875.
Edgar_Allan_Poe-课件
V. Poe’s Theories for the Short Story: a. The short story should be so brief as to be read at one sitting. b. The first sentence ought to help to bring out the “single effect” of the story. c. No word should be used which does not contribute to the work. d. A tale should reveal some logical truth, and should end with the last sentence, leaving a sense of finality with the reader.
Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849)
Teaching Objectives: Know something about the life and major works of Edgar Allen Poe; Understand the definition of Gothic Novel; Know something about Poe’s theory on short story; Know something about Poe’s poems; Analyze The Fall of the House of Usher
Annabel Lee
Annabel Lee is the last poem Poe wrote, is an idealized account of his wife, Virginia Glemn, who died in 1847.
Lesson 4 Edgar Allen Poe 美国文学
• Born in an actor and actress’ family – his parents died when he was very small –adopted by a Virginia rich businessman John Allan – entered the Virginia University at 17 – West Point where he began to write poetry – then tales – editor of magazines such as The Southern Literary Messenger, Graham’s magazine, etc.
死去也是一个最诗意的主题。
• C. Purity: Poe is opposed to the heresy of the didactic and called for pure poetry. What he seems to be saying is that art lies not so much in what is being said as in the way it says it. • 纯正：Poe被认为是主流诗歌之外的一个异类，他认为艺 术并不在于它被说成该是艺术的样子。 • Besides, he stresses rhythm, defines true poetry as ―the rhythmical creation of beauty‖ and declares that ―music is the perfection of the soul, or ideas, of poetry.‖ Poe 强调诗歌的韵 律，他认为诗歌是音律创造的美，并称音乐使得灵魂，思 想，诗歌更完美。 • He cited his own poem ―The Raven‖ of 108 lines to show his aesthetics : a sense of melancholy over the death of a beloved beautiful young woman pervades the whole poem. • 他以自己的108行诗 《乌鸦》为例子，该诗歌整个气氛就 是哀伤– 作者喜欢的美丽姑娘死去，这ons: • His criticisms against Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 他曾发
英美文学鉴赏 ppt课件
I Wandered Lonely as Cloud
• Structure: four six-line stanzas; • iambic tetrameter; • rhyme scheme: ababcc; • theme: the harmony between things in
nature and the harmony between nature and the poet himself/ Nature' s beauty uplifts the human spirit. • Figures of speech: simile,metaphor, personification
• Comedies- As You Like It, The Merchants of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing, A Midsummer
Night’s Dream，The Taming of the Shrew,
Twelfth Night • Histories- Henry IV, Henry V, Henry VI, Henry
① • Language: different poetic forms, such as the sonnet, the blank ② verse and the rhymed couplet. rich in vocabulary and idiom.
3.John Milespeare
• Works
• 37 plays • 2 long narrative poems • 154 sonnets
William Shakespeare
• Drama:
• Tragedies- Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear, Othello, Romeo and Juliet
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Mood of the persona: melancholic, sorrowful, even desperate
严选文书
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midnight: a time associated with the end of life
bleak December: a season associated with the end of life
Eureka: A Prose Poem (1848) – Essay 我发现了：一首散文诗
“The Poetic Principle” (1848) – Essay 诗歌原理
"The Light-House" (1849) – Poe's last incomplete work
光之塔
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the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest
American practitioners of the short story
and is considered the inventor of the
detective fiction genre. He is further
The Haunted Palace 闹鬼的宫殿
The Conqueror Worm
征服者爬虫
Sonnet — To Science 十四行诗——致科学
Ulalume — A Ballad 尤娜路姆——一首歌谣
A Dream Within A Dream 梦中之梦
严选文书
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“The Black Cat” 黑猫
the room: warmed and lighted by “dying embers”, associated with the supernatural
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Introduction
a miserable childhood
was adopted
entered the University
by John Allan
but didn’t finish
went to West Point but
an unhappy
was dismissed
relationship
Ratiocination（推理）
“The Murders in the Rue Morgue” 《莫格街谋杀案》
“The Gold Bug”《金甲虫》
“The Purloined Letter”《被窃的信
件“》The Mystery of Marie Roget” 《玛丽罗杰谜
案》
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works
at 27 he married his 13-year-old cousin
her death in 1847 left him a bitterer life
died in mysterious circumstance s, in 1849
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Introduction
a villain with no virtue
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western stories;
criticism;
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Important Points
• 1. Poe’s major works. • 2. Poe’s literary characteristics
and achievements
Literary theory
The Philosophy of Composition 《创作原理》 The Poetic Principle 《诗歌原则》
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Themes
1. death – predominant theme “Poe is not interested in anything alive. Everything in Poe’s writings is dead.”
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(1809—1849)
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E.A. Poe (1809—1849)
Poe’s mother
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Edgar Allan
A. novPeoliset, poet,
cBr.itgioc;od at writing
Gothic and
I. Life
detective fiction,
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tales Horror a collection of short stories
two kind s
Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque
«“述T异h集e »Black Cat” 《黑猫》
“The Cask of Amontillado” （红色死亡假面舞会） “Ligeia”《莉盖亚》 “The Fall of the House of Usher”
his poetry is “exquisitely refined“(精致优雅
a short story writer his tales are "complete works of art"
a great writer of fiction, a poet of the first rank, and a critic of insight
2. horror 3.negative thoughts of science
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III. Gothic Novel
The Gothic novel, or “Gothic romance” flourished through the early nineteenth century. Authors of such novels set their stories in the medieval period, often in a gloomy castle, and made plentiful use of ghosts, mysterious disappearances, and other sensational and supernatural occurrences; their principal aim was to evoke chilling terror by exploiting mystery, cruelty,13
Today, his works are read with appreciation and understanding.
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Introduction
Shaw’s evaluation of Poe's achievement
a critic, a poet，
"the greatest journalistic critic of his time"
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Poe’s Major Literary Works
poems 1) “The Raven” 《乌鸦》
2) “Annable Lee” 《安娜贝尔·李》 3) “The Sleeper” 《睡梦人》
4) “A Dream Within a Dream” 《梦中梦》
5) “Sonnet—To Science” 《十四行诗—致科学》 6) “To Helen” 《致海伦》 7) “The City in the Sea” 《海中的城市》earlier entitled The Doomed City 《衰败的城市》
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Introduction
Poe enjoyed respect and welcome in Europe
His reputation was first made in France
Poe's influence was considerable in Spain, Italy, Germany and Russia.
an evil genius
Emerson: "the jingle man"
Whitman: “its narrow range and unhealthy, lurid quality” (不丰富的 选材和不健康、可怕的质量)
He was understood by critics and other writers in America.