埃德加爱伦坡的介绍.ppt
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to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career.
Edgar Allan Poe
• He was born in Boston, Massachusetts;
• he was orphaned young when his mother died shortly after his father abandoned the family. Poe was taken in by John Allan.
Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe
January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849
American author, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement
Edgar Allan Poe
• In 1836, Poe, then 27, married his 13-yearold cousin, Virginia Clemm. They were married for some eleven years until her early death, which may have inspired some of his writing
• Poe's writing reflects his literary theories, which he presented in his criticism and also in essays such as "The Poetic Principle".
• His most recurring themes deal with questions of death.
• Many of his works are generally considereLeabharlann Baidu part of the dark romanticism genre.
• He believed that quality work should be brief and focus on a specific single effect.
Edgar Allan Poe
• The tales of mystery and the macabre. • one of the earliest American practitioners
of the short story . • the inventor of the detective fiction genre. • the first well-known American writer to try
• Edgar Allan Poe is buried in Baltimore, Maryland. The circumstances and cause of his death remain uncertain
Edgar Allan Poe
• Poe's best known fiction works are Gothic.
Edgar Allan Poe
• 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.
Edgar Allan Poe
• He attended the University of Virginia for one semester but left due to lack of money.
• Then enlisted in the Army and later failing as an officer's cadet at West Point.
Edgar Allan Poe
• He was born in Boston, Massachusetts;
• he was orphaned young when his mother died shortly after his father abandoned the family. Poe was taken in by John Allan.
Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe
January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849
American author, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement
Edgar Allan Poe
• In 1836, Poe, then 27, married his 13-yearold cousin, Virginia Clemm. They were married for some eleven years until her early death, which may have inspired some of his writing
• Poe's writing reflects his literary theories, which he presented in his criticism and also in essays such as "The Poetic Principle".
• His most recurring themes deal with questions of death.
• Many of his works are generally considereLeabharlann Baidu part of the dark romanticism genre.
• He believed that quality work should be brief and focus on a specific single effect.
Edgar Allan Poe
• The tales of mystery and the macabre. • one of the earliest American practitioners
of the short story . • the inventor of the detective fiction genre. • the first well-known American writer to try
• Edgar Allan Poe is buried in Baltimore, Maryland. The circumstances and cause of his death remain uncertain
Edgar Allan Poe
• Poe's best known fiction works are Gothic.
Edgar Allan Poe
• 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.
Edgar Allan Poe
• He attended the University of Virginia for one semester but left due to lack of money.
• Then enlisted in the Army and later failing as an officer's cadet at West Point.