Edgar Allen Poe
quotes
“The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.”
“Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.”
“Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'”
“TRUE! – nervous -very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses – not destroyed -not dulled them. Above all was my sense of hearing acute. I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell. How, then, am I mad?”
“I saw the lips of the black robed judges. They appeared to me white – whiter than the sheet upon which I trace these words – and thin even to grotesqueness; thin with the intensity of their expression of firmness – of immovable resolution -of stern contempt of human torture. I saw that the decrees of what to me was fate, were still issuing from those lips. I saw them writhe with a deadly locution. I saw them fashion the syllables of my name; and I shuddered because no sound succeeded. “
about
“On October 3, 1849, Poe was found delirious on the streets of Baltimore, "in great distress, and... in need of immediate assistance", according to Joseph W. Walker who found him. He was taken to the Washington Medical College where he died on Sunday, October 7, 1849 at 5:00 in the morning. 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. He is said to have repeatedly called out the name "Reynolds" on the night before his death, though it is unclear to whom he was referring. Some sources say that Poe's final words were "Lord help my poor soul". All medical records have been lost, including his death certificate.”
“He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career.”
“A central figure of Romanticism in the United States and American literature as a whole.”
“One of the country's (America) earliest practitioners of the short story.”
“Poe is generally considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre and is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction.”
Born in Boston, orphaned and raised in Richmond Virginia by John and Francis Allen. Later fell out with John over gambling debts.
Motifs
Madness
Death
Darkness
Animals
Fear
Supernatural
The Uncanny
The Other
Gothicism
Self
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