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Edgar Allan Poe

Early Life Poe was born in Boston on January 19, 1809, his parent’s second child. His father deserted the family a year later. In December 1811, his mother died at 24, and her husband disappeared completely.

College & West Point Poe spent most of 1826 at the University of West Virginia, doing well in his studies, but running up gambling and drinking. He was admitted at West Point in 1830, but got himself expelled by missing classes and roll calls.

Poe’s Death During the last two years of his life, Poe was seriously ill – perhaps with a brain lesion – and drinking steadily. On Election Day, October 3, 1949, he was found senseless near a polling place. Taken to a hospital, he died on October 7 of “congestion of the brain”. A recent theory is that he died of rabies.

Poe worked in a variety of genres (1827 – 1849) Criticism – he gained a national reputation as a virulently sarcastic critic, a literary hatchetman. The bulk of his writing consists of his criticism, and his most abiding ambition was to become a powerful critic.

Poe worked in a variety of genres (1827 – 1849) Psychological Fiction – He wanted to produce the greatest possible horrific effects on the reader. Detective Story – Poe created this form when he was 32, with all of its major conventions complete.

Characteristics of Poe’s Detective Stories Poe places veiled clues before the reader. The writer / narrator strives to appear objective. Poe would have liked to solve everything by the mind. He was disturbed by what he could not solve by reason. The climax of the story is the narrator’s explanation of the crime.

Poe & the Gothic Poe did not want to write gothic stories; he started his career spoofing the Gothic. He transformed tales of terror into psychological stories; he delved into the mysterious recesses of the human mind.

Elements of Gothic in Poe’s Fiction Grim setting Landscapes are often reflections of character’s mind. Unusual buildings, extremes of nature, eccentric works of art. Very few of his stories take place in America; most take place in Europe or Never-Never-Land

Other Elements of the Gothic Hidden Evil Unspeakable, mysterious crimes, including incest and parricide Obsession with Death Ghosts, blood, body parts Maniacal Laughter The Discovered Manuscript Gives responsibility to someone else Deformity The grotesque – people who don’t look right are capable of activity beyond the normal

An Element of Poe’s Style Poe uses vocabulary to create setting, for rhetorical effect, rather than for information. Modern horror films use music to create atmosphere; Poe used vocabulary.