Born
January 19, 1809, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. American short-story writer,
poet, critic, and editor Edgar Allan Poe's tales of mystery and horror
initiated the modern detective story, and the atmosphere in his tales of horror
is unrivaled in American fiction.
Poe’s writing possesses indubitable literary merit and serves as an
encouraging example for aspiring writers. His writing demonstrates stylistic
brilliance in the form of varying vocabulary, remarkable repetition, and
instrumental imagery.
Poe's best known fiction works are Gothic, a genre he followed to appease
the public taste. His most recurring themes deal with questions of death,
including its physical signs, the effects of decomposition, concerns of premature
burial, the reanimation of the dead, and mourning. Many of his works are
generally considered part of the dark romanticism genre, a literary reaction to
transcendentalism, which Poe strongly disliked. In many of Poe's works, setting is used
to paint a dark and gloomy picture in our minds. His mysterious style of
writing appeals to emotion and drama. Poe’s psychologically thrilling tales
examining the depths of the human psyche earned him much fame during his
lifetime and after his death.
Poe has a
brilliant way of taking gothic tales of mystery and terror and mixing them with
variations of a romantic tale by shifting emphasis from surface suspense and
plot pattern to his symbolic play in language and various meanings of words. Poe uses a subtle style, tone, subconscious
motivation of characters and serious themes
to shift his readers towards a demented point of view. This is the unique tactics Poe utilizes that
makes him an impressionable writer and poet.
Beyond horror, Poe also wrote satires, humor tales, and hoaxes. For
comic effect, he used irony and ludicrous extravagance, often in an attempt to
liberate the reader from cultural conformity.
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