Poe finally graduated April 15, 1829, after finding a substitute to replace him in his place. Before leaving for West Point, he moved to Baltimore to spend time with his widowed aunt, Maria Clemm, her daughter, Virginia Eliza Clemm (cousin of the poet), his brother Henry, and his invalid grandmother Elizabeth Cairnes Poe. At that time, he published his second book, Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems (Baltimore, 1829).
Poe traveled to West Point and enrolled as a cadet on 1 Julyeros of West Point, many of whom donated 75 cents for that purpose. Poe was thus able to raise a total of $ 170. The fellow would take a surprise, because they hoped that the poems were satirical type Poe wrote in West Point to make fun of commanding officers. The book was printed by Elam Bliss of New York, and appeared as "Second Edition" with the following inscription: "This book is respectfully dedicated to the Corps of Cadets of the United States." The book reprinted the long poems "Tamerlane" and "Al Aaraaf", plus six unpublished poems, among which was the first version of "To Helen", "Israfel" and "The City in the Sea." He returned to Baltimore with his aunt, brother and cousin in March 1831. His older brother, Henrand who had been in poor health, partly due to his alcoholism, died on August 1, 1831. Poe was installed in the loft he shared with his brother, and could work in relative comfort. His literary attention so far focused exclusively on poetry, going to move the story, genre more "marketable", which at that time was of paramount importance to the writer and his family. Poe, journalist
achieved in 1832 published five stories in the Saturday Courier, of Philadelphia. Dedicated to journalism over the years was the editor, editor and editor in newspapers and magazines such as "Southern Literary Messenger, Burton's Gentleman's Magazine" and "Graham's Magazine" among others,continuously moving between Boston, Baltimore and New York, it was unable to settle into a steady job. In 1833 he won first prize in the literary competition organized by The Baltimore Saturday Visitor, your account Manuscript Found in a Bottle. In 1834 his stepfather died without leaving an inheritance, something that affected him greatly. In 1836 he married his cousin Virginia, 13. He dedicated a poem, Anabel Lee. As in these years had no steady job, he devoted himself with enthusiasm to the writing of fiction, bringing out the best stories of his career. He was consultant editor of Burton's Gentlemen's Magazine, which, thanks to him greatly increased circulation. Then abandoned for reasons unknown. He was editorial director of Graham's Magazine,sis (January 30, 1847). Despair and depression called back to his door and delivered back to alcohol and roam the streets. What followed were months of madness and excess, although there is some poems and essays Ulalume cosmogonic Eureka. Final
As shown in his correspondence, Poe throughout his life suffered severe nervous depression from which he defended, as seen through the laudanum and alcohol. Was also continuously plagued by economic problems, often derived from such interests. The illness and subsequent death of his wife from tuberculosis (like her biological mother) in 1847, and several subsequent failures (since the end of his life) in their romantic relationshipslogo for his translations of Poe, that in his last moments obsessively invoked a polar explorer, named Reynolds, who had served as a model for its fantastic adventure novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, and that the expiry uttered these words: "May God have mercy on my poor soul."
The precise cause of his death is still controversial, having noted the possibility of suffering diabetes, several types of enzyme deficiencies, and even anger. Dr. James E. Snodgrass wrote after Poe's death on the circumstances in which it was found and his last hours. Within
letters of Poe's work, intense throughout his life, is particularly daunting reading the qEU refers to his last months. In these letters the poet gave continual proofs of his desire to die, and occasionally even asked his aunt, Maria Clemm, the only living thing that united him with a tender affection, he died at his side.
We can only die together. Now it is no good reason with me, I can not, I have to die. Since I published Eureka, I have no desire to stay alive. I can not conclude anything else. For your love life was sweet, but we die together (...) Since I've been meeting here once in prison for intoxication, but this time he was not drunk. It was for Virginia.
to Maria Clemm, 07/07/1849
Personality
Endowed with great intelligence, Edgar Allan Poe was a manonstruosos, rotting corpses ...) and, second, the so-called psychological terror, which gets delve deeper into the reader because it provides easy identification with the characters. Stories
His most important contribution to the history of literature constitute the short stories of all kinds. It is noteworthy in the same bill balanced and high artistic level. Endowed with great intelligence and a powerful imagination, Poe was absolute master of the mystery field and in the recreation of atmospheres pregnant unhealthy and ghostly glow, while in the technical field, his mastery of narrative tempo or rhythm had no equal. Julio Cortazar, a great admirer of his, wasgreat emphasis on frugality and "economy of means" that he displayed to achieve their purposes (see The Cask of Amontillado).
His most important stories belong to the fantasy and horror: Manuscript Found in a Bottle (for which he received his first literary prize), The black cat, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Fall of the House of Usher , The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar, The Premature Burial, Ligeia, etc. These chilling tales have fascinated generations of readers and storytellers of the genre macabre, and the dark symbolism inherent in these rivers of ink have run.
no longer noticed more signs of life on Valdemar and, believing he had died, I hope to cityada by the artist from the traditional Gothic novel and modern macabre story. Metzengerstein fully meets romantic passages and items: the ruin of a noble family, an old castle, a dissolute Baron ... but do not count the last of that family, and also contains a love story. From start to finish is a tale of horror and doom.
In terms of technique, in the words of Cortázar, Poe "understood that the effectiveness of a story depends on its intensity and occurrence (...) Every word must come together, go to the occurrence, the thing that happens, and this which happens to be only occurrence and not an allegory (as in many stories of Hawthorne, for example) or a pretext for genealizaciones psicológicias, ethical or didactic L (...)ström, Von Kempelen and his discovery, etc. Mesmerism in vogue at the time appears in several stories of Poe, despite its stated skepticism about the subject.
Added to this, was the forerunner of the detective story through stories such as The Gold Bug, which is analytically and logically solve complex problems. Are of importance in this regard the detective stories whose protagonist gentleman Auguste Dupin, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Purloined Letter and The Mystery of Marie Roget. In this character probably inspired Arthur Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes to develop.
place in the depths of the bush, not far from the eastern tip of the island, ie the mas distant, Legrand had built himself a small hut, which occupied when the first time, and on a purely coincidental, I Remember.
It soon ended in friendship, then down at the prisoner many qualities that attracted the interest and esteem. I found him polite, a unique intelligence, but infested with misanthropy, and subject to perverse choices of excitement and melancholy.
(From "The Gold Bug," 1843)
Less known are their stories "grotesque", in which, for some, exhibited a very questionable sense of humor: Bon-bon, the lost breath, King Plague Eyeglasses, The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether, etc. Robert Louis Stevenson, in a famous essay on Poe, came towrote: "The man can write King Death was no longer human." These stories, however, because of its extravagance, were highly appreciated by the Surrealist poets.
stories deserve special mention cutting and metaphysical poetry, many of them authentic poems in prose, entrenched aesthetic virtues: Conversation of Eiros and Charmion, The Colloquy of Monos and Una, The Elk, The Island of fairy Silence Shadow, etc.
"Listen," said the Devil, placing his hand on my head. "The land of which I speak is a dark region in Libya, along the Zaire River. And there is no quiet there, nor silence.
"The river is a tone saffron and sickly, and not flow into the sea, but palpitatevermilion eye forever under the sun with a tumultuous and convulsive agitation. "
(In "Silence (a fable)", 1839)
Among his most popular tales, are:
* The Gold-Bug (The Gold Bug), 1843.
* The Murders in the Rue Morgue (The Murders in the Rue Morgue), 1841.
* The black cat (The Black Cat), 1843.
* The Cask of Amontillado (The Cask of Amontillado), 1846.
* The Fall of the House of Usher (The Fall of the House of Usher), 1839.
* The Sphinx (The Sphinx), 1846.
* Manuscript Found in a Bottle (MS. Found in a Bottle), 1833.
* The Purloined Letter (The Purloined Letter), 1844.
* The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar (The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar), 1845. Cstructural ones, made it almost impossible to translate into other languages, except in prose. The most popular of all his poems is The Raven, a narrative of romantic song which has the arrival of one of these birds to stay a solitary man on a stormy night. In the troubled character questions about fate and about his beloved dead, "Leonore", the sinister bird invariably responds with the catchphrase "nevermore" ("never again".
Among his major poems include:
* The Raven (The Raven)
* Lenore (Lenore)
* Fantastic Voyage
* Annabel Lee * Bells (The Bells)
* A Mi Madre (To My Mother)
* Hymn (Hymn)
* A Valentine (A Valentine) CHipio poetry and philosophy of his famous composition is about the most famous poetic piece, The Raven. In this work he says that "the brevity must be in direct proportion to the intensity of the desired effect." Impact
in literature * The extent of the influence of Poe is overwhelming. In the United States itself inspired writers like Mark Twain, Herman Melville, Ambrose Bierce, a specialist in the macabre, Ray Bradbury, and especially by its dark to Howard Phillips Lovecraft. The Mystery Writers of America is an organization that rewards the best mystery writer whose awards are called the "Edgars."
* The other major influence was to the French Symbolists, led ponice.
* In Russia, his work was translated by Konstantin Balmont symbolist and influenced Nabokov and he made several references to Poe in his famous novel Lolita. Fyodor Dostoevsky said about him that had an enormous talent as a writer and made a brief reference to his poem The Raven in The Brothers Karamazov. Also in Crime and Punishment the protagonist Raskolnikov was inspired in part by Montresor in The Cask of Amontillado.
* In Sweden Viktor Rydberg enough translated Poe's works into Swedish. The German writer Thomas Mann wrote many short stories based on Poe. Also Friedrich Nietzsche was influenced in trials of Poe for his eccentric philosophy and a writer in Japan was the pseudonym Poe in your language, changing its name Edogawa Rampo.
* In Greece, Philemon Sausage published the first translation of his complete short stories and devoted a section of his Meditations. The painting
Gustave Doré, Edouard Manet. In music
* inspired musicians like Ravel, Rachmaninov, who made a poem coral bells, and Debussy, who composed a lyrical drama on The Fall of the House of Usher. Teammate Andre Caplet also composed a theme music of the story "The Masque of the Red Death.
* The English composer Joseph Holbrooke composed a symphony at The Raven in 1900, and three years later did something similar with the poem The Bells. And he made a ballwere prematurely.
* Alan Parsons Project The group performed songs dedicated to Poe in the album Tales of Mystery and Imagination, for example, The Raven, with collaborations like Orson Welles in the role of narrator.
* In 1981 the group of Heavy Metal Iron Maiden made a song called "Murders in the Rue Morgue Killers integrated into your disk.
* The English group Radio Futura gave music to the poem Annabel Lee in 1989.
* The heavy metal band Nevermore owes its name and many of his songs to the work of Poe.
* In 1996 the band Theatre of Tragedy in his album "Velvet Darkness They Fear", especially in the song "And When I Falleth", made a dedication to Edgar Allan Poe, only onedehyde).
* Other groups currently have redido tribute to American author are Voltaire, Green Day (in the song "St. Jimmy", Good Charlotte, Mr. Bungle, The Crüxshadows, Cradle of Filth, Team Sleep, singer Utada Hikaru (Kremlin Dusk, from their album: Exodus), Elysian Fields, The Smithereens, Symphony X, Opera IX, Tiger Army, Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble of Shadows, Overlord, Insane Clown Posse and Antony and the Johnsons.
* Lou Reed on his album "The Raven" in 2003, pays tribute to the work of Poe, and a tremendous understanding of an issue, entitled the name "Edgar Allan Poe." involved in the disc include: Ornette Coleman , David Bowie or the actors Steve Buscemi and Willem Dafoe.
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The power of words
El Pozo and Pédulo
The Pit and the Pendulum (1842)
The Pit and the Pendulum (1842)
THE OVAL PORTRAIT
The oval portrait
Eleonora
Incomparable adventure of a Hans Pfaall such
The oblong box
The Purloined Letter The Purloined Letter The Purloined Letter
Quote of The Sleeping
The Masque of the Red Death
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
Bells Bells
Leonora Ligeia
LIGEIA
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
The facts in the case of M. Valdemar
The facts in the case of M. Valdemar
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