Poe,Edgar

In the literary world, there are many instances where an author has incorporated his personal events of life into his literary work. Ironically, this phenomenon is not at all new; even in classrooms and other literary writing settings, students are commonly made to express their views and what they know in their writings. More often than not, we witness a writer who is using his or her writings to vent out his or her grievances, frustrations and joy occurring from personal life events. Edgar Allan Poe, a renowned 19th century writer, is an example of an author who has successfully incorporated his personal life events into his literary work; and it has left a massive impact on his audience (Benton, Richard, p. 1-25).

The ambition of Poe was to create a truly national literature. Indeed, at that time, European influence was predominant and the production of the old continent flocked to the United States whose literature - except Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper - does little more than shone by his horror stories - the author then the most famous being Charles Brockden Brown - and her romance novels. As such, his work of literary criticism was marked by a real demand for quality and reporting of facilities and plagiarism. Longfellow was the most illustrious of its victims, and he never responded to his accusations, although his friend's fissent 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 conceptions cosmogonic. In Eureka, he explains that the universe, the origin, was marked by uniqueness (Benton, Richard, p. 1-25).

He broke into something that could be closer to the Big Bang theory, but it aspires to regain its unity. Similarly, in literature, the unit should outweigh all other considerations. Hence the theory of the unique effect that develops in the composition of Philosophy (translated by Baudelaire under the title of a poem of Genesis): the purpose of art is aesthetic, that is to say the effect it creates in the reader. However, this effect can be maintained only for a short time (the time required to read a lyric poem, the execution of a drama, the observation of a table, etc). For him, if the saga has some value is that it consists of a series ...