Edgar Allan Poe — "Mr. Mumblethumb"
Mr. Mumblethumb
Mr. Mumblethumb
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"Art is to look at not to criticize."
"I have a very strong opinion that the world is a stage, and all the men and women merely players."
"I have a very strong opinion that the world is a gigantic tomb, and I am one of the corpses."
"The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls."
"To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!"
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.
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