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• IV. Poe’s aesthetics
• 1. Aesthetic writings:
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Tamerlane 《帖木尔》
A Dream Within A Dream 《梦中之 梦》
The Haunted Palace《闹鬼的宫殿》
• The Poetic Principle《诗歌原理》
• The Philosophy of Composition 《创作哲学》
Science’s crime of destroying these beautiful myths is made all the worse by the poem’s harsh language. The vulture has not just nudged the mythical figures out of the picture, but has “dragged Diana from her car” and “torn the Naiad from her flood.”
III. Poe’s Major Works
• Tales
• Poetry
• The Black Cat《黑猫》
• The Raven 《乌鸦》
• The Cask of Amontillado
• Annabel Lee《安娜贝尔·李》
《阿芒提拉多的酒》
• To Helen 《致海伦》
• The Gold-Bug 《金甲虫》 • The Bells《钟声》
• At 27 he married his 13-year-old cousin Virginia who died very young in 1947
• Emerson dismissed him in three words “the jingle man” （招摇的人 ），Mark Twain declared his prose to be unreadable. And Whitman was the only famous literary figure present at the Poe Memorial Ceremony in 1875
• Editor, Poet and Professional literary critic
• II. Life and Career
• Born in an actor and actress’s family – his parents died when he was very young –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.
• Ironically, it was in Europe that Poe enjoyed respect and welcome.
• Berຫໍສະໝຸດ Baiduard Shaw said: “Poe was ‘the greatest journalistic critic of his time; his poetry is exquisitely refined; and his tales are complete works of art”.
Edgar Allan Poe
(1809-1849)
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
• I. Literary Status
• Pioneer of American Horror Tales, American Detective Tales, American Southern writings, American PsychoAnalytic fiction
• 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.”
• Today, Poe’s particular power has ensured his position among the greatest writers of the world. The majority of critics today, in America as well as in the world, have recognized the real, unique importance of Poe as a great writer of fiction, a poet of the first rank, and a critic of great insight. His works are read the world over. His influence is world-wide in modern literature.
• Poe was a fascinating man of imagination. Poe was sensitive enough to feel the pressure of a world where science and reason reign supreme(至高无上的）, where “there is neither joy, nor love, nor light, nor certitude, nor peace, nor help from pain.”