His poems and stories chill the blood, even today. This bibliography is written on the life of the famous American poet offers great insight into his life and his passions. ... Following the success of "The Raven"," Poe wrote his "Philosophy of Composition,"" which describes the framework and reasoning behind his narrative and structural choices in his most famous poem. His words are surprisingly beautiful considering the poems content, "beauty is the sole legitimate Province of the poem; pleasure which is at once the most intense, the most elevating, and the most pure, is, a believer, found i...

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Edgar Allan Poe was known to the world for his horrific, jaw dropping short stories and poems and also for being a literary genius of his time due to the unfamiliar writing style he presented. ... One of the most well-known fictional characters in literature is the famous Sherlock Holmes. ... In order to create the horror and tension in his stories and poems Poe uses dramatic and verbal irony. ... A poem that contains great symbolism is "The Raven" this poem brings forth many symbols including the most obvious one, the raven. The raven in this poem he utters the word "nevermore&...

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Other famous writers of this time include Thomas Paine, who wrote THE CRISIS, NO.1; Patrick Henry, author of SPEECH TO THE VIRGINIA CONVENTION; and Thomas Jefferson, writer of THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. ... Influenced writers of this time include Washington Irving, author of RIP VAN WINKLE; Edgar Allan Poe, author of many masterpieces, such as THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH, ELDORADO, ANNABEL LEE, TO HELEN, and THE RAVEN; Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville, author of the famous MOBY DICK. ... Holmes is known for the poem OLD IRONSIDES. ... The most well-known writer of thi...

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It also in a specific manner tries to make parallels between Poe's own character and his projections onto his tales and poems, in here "The Oval Portrait". ... Sigmund Freud Psychology's most famous figure is also one of the most influential and controversial thinkers of the twentieth century. ...

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