Edgar Allan Poe — "Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sens…"
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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"I have no belief in the perfectibility of human nature."
"I have a strong inclination to be a poet."
"I have no doubt that the universe is a gigantic practical joke."
"I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him."
"My generous throat has shared among the fishes."
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.