The Life And Work Of Edgar Allen Poe
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The life of Poe is the most melodramatic of any of the major American
writers of his generation. In Poe's poems, like his tales, his characters
are tortured by nameless fears and longings. In both form and content
Poe's early poetry is typically Romantic although of an unusually limited
range. ....
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.... begin thinking madly. Because of one sip, one normally would not
become unstable. Yet with this condition of the character and with the
same condition associated with the author, this reflects the alcoholic
temperament.
Another detail of retrospect can be noted in Poe's "Fall of the House
of Usher". The idea of incest is insinuated here. The character Roderick
Usher has taken his sister for his wife. Poe has not married his sister
but his cousin however the subject of incest sti ....
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