Poe As A Romantic
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A wise man once said "Artists are never before their time, they are
the time and it is just the others who are behind." This defines the
career of Edgar Allan Poe, one the greatest and yet one of the least
recognized authors in American History. Poe lived and wrote at the
beginning of the 19th ce ....
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.... of the characteristics of romanticism is the admiration of
beauty. Beauty was revered by Poe, he worshipped it in all its' manifests.
Poe used beauty in almost all of his poems, often to describe a woman. In
Annabelle Lee, To Helen, and Ligeia, Poe uses eloquent words to describe
the objects of his affection. The beauty of the women in these poems was
tremendous, not only physically but spiritually. Poe saw beauty in all
things, and strove to incorporate it into all of his stor ....
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