Edgar Allan Poe — "It is with literature as with women: one must have a certain experience to appre…"
It is with literature as with women: one must have a certain experience to appreciate its value.
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"I have no desire to be famous. I have a desire to be read."
"Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears."
"Why is his last new novel sleep itself? Because it's so poor. — sopor."
"There is a strong disposition in mankind to believe in the marvellous."
"I have no faith in any system of education that does not cultivate the imagination."
About Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
American Gothic poet and short-story writer who invented the detective story (Murders in the Rue Morgue) and shaped horror literature. Closely associated with Nathaniel Hawthorne (fellow American Gothic) and Charles Baudelaire (his French translator and torch-bearer). For an intellectual contrast, see Ralph Waldo Emerson, Transcendentalist optimist of self-reliance — Poe wrote essays attacking the entire Transcendentalist circle as didactic and intellectually thin — he derisively called them 'Frogpondians' and treated their cheerful mysticism as the literary opposite of his macabre realism.