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    Edgar Allan Poe: and His Critical Theories

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    Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, editor and literary critic best known for his poetry and short stories involving mystery, horror, and crime. Through his critical writings, he was the first in America to analyze seriously the psychology of characters and the relationship between criticism and artistic principles. Poe is credited with inventing the modern detective story and influencing the development of the psychological crime novel and short story form. His critical theories explored the interior lives of characters and helped establish consistent styles and techniques for fiction that influenced later writers and the French symbolist movement.

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    Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, editor and literary critic best known for his poetry and short stories involving mystery, horror, and crime. Through his critical writings, he was the first in America to analyze seriously the psychology of characters and the relationship between criticism and artistic principles. Poe is credited with inventing the modern detective story and influencing the development of the psychological crime novel and short story form. His critical theories explored the interior lives of characters and helped establish consistent styles and techniques for fiction that influenced later writers and the French symbolist movement.

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    Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, editor and literary critic best known for his poetry and short stories involving mystery, horror, and crime. Through his critical writings, he was the first in America to analyze seriously the psychology of characters and the relationship between criticism and artistic principles. Poe is credited with inventing the modern detective story and influencing the development of the psychological crime novel and short story form. His critical theories explored the interior lives of characters and helped establish consistent styles and techniques for fiction that influenced later writers and the French symbolist movement.

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    EDGAR ALLAN POE

    AND HIS CRITICAL THEORIES

    Reporter: Arche U. Gaudel


    Edgar Allan Poe was an
    American writer, poet, editor and
    literary critic. He is best known
    for his poetry and short stories,
    particularly his tales of mystery.
    Born: January 19, 1809 in
    Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Died: October 7, 1849,


    Maryland, USA
    EDGAR ALLAN POE
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     Tales Of The Grotesque
    And Arabesque
     The Prose Romances
    Of Edgar A. Poe
     Tales By Edgar A. Poe
     Horror Tales
    Typically revolve around characters who have reached
    states of extreme alienation, terror and madness and
    often contain elements of supernatural.

     Detective Stories
    Revolve around crimes so strange and inexplicable
    that they prove nearly impossible to solve and are
    concern with the complex, sometimes misleading
    relationship between human reasoning and empirical
    reality.
     Critical Articles
    • The Poetic Principle and The
    Philosophy of Composition
    • Contain the unified core and basis of his
    critical theories and suffice to give a full
    understanding of Poe’s critical views.
    KEY PRINCIPLES:
    i. Unity of Effect
    ii. Rejection of Allegory and Didacticism
    iii. Epic Poem being a Non-poem
    iv. Brevity of a Work of Art
    v. Appeal to the Emotions
    vi. Ideal Subject Matter for Art
    vii.Importance of Emotional Responses
    UNITY OF
    EFFECT
    LENGTH OF THE
    WORK OF ART
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