Edgar Allen Poe

Introduction

Romanticism is a literary and artistic movement of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that placed value on emotion or imagination over reason, on the imagination over society. Some sources say Romanticism started in reaction to neo-classicism, or the Enlightenment. Without doubt one of the romantic writers of all time, Edgar Allan Poe wrote many poems and stories of success. A well-known poem of his is the raven, the story of a man who lost his wife and goes crazy for a flight in a mocking tone: in his study room. The raven is a good example of Romanticism, showing how writers favored romantic feelings and intuition over reason. Poe's life had a great influence on his writing. He did a lot of drugs and alcohol, which may have contributed somewhat to your style of writing fantasy. The raven is a good example of Poe's connection to the romantic, see how he was one of his best writing. Romantic poetry considered the ultimate expression of the imagination. Romanticism is a movement in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Was the reaction in the literature, philosophy, art and religion of the previous period in the style of its author.

Discussion

Edgar Allen Poe was an incredible Romantic writer of horror and mystery poems and short stories, living through the glory days of the Romantic period until his premature and unexplained death. The ambition of Edgar Allan Poe was to create a truly national literature. Indeed, at that time, European influence was pervasive and the production of the old continent flocked to the United States whose literature - except Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper - does not that shone through his horror stories - the author the most notable being when Charles Brockden Brown - and her romance novels. As such, his work of literary criticism was marked by a genuine demand for quality, as well as denunciation of the facilities and plagiarism. Longfellow was the most famous of his victims, he never responded to his charges, though friends quarrel was a pleasure, in response to slander Poe literary circles in New York.

Poe has left important theoretical writings, influenced by August Wilhelm Schlegel and Coleridge, who can give meaning to his work. His thoughts return to his literary cosmogonic conceptions. Hence the theory of the unique effect that develops in the composition of Philosophy (translated by Baudelaire as the Genesis of a poem): the ultimate aim of art is aesthetic, ie, say the effect it creates in the reader. However, this effect can be maintained only for a short period (the time needed to read a lyric poem, the execution of a play, observation of a table, etc..). For him, if the epic has any value is that it consists of a series of small pieces, each facing a single effect or sentiment, which "elevates the soul." It combines the aesthetics of art in the pure ideality claiming that the mood or sentiment created by a work of art elevates the soul and ...