Complete Tales & Poems of Edgar Allan Poe (Barnes & Noble Collectible Editions)

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In beauty of face no maiden ever equaled her. It was the radiance of an opium-dream - and airy and spirit-lifting vision more wildly divine than the phantasies which hovered about the slumbering souls of the daughters of Delos. Yet her features were not of that regular mould which we have been falsely taught to worship in the classical labors of the heathen.” Personal Life: Poe had a tumultuous personal life, marked by financial struggles, alcoholism, and the loss of several loved ones, including his wife Virginia, who died of tuberculosis. He was known for his erratic behavior and was often involved in public disputes with other writers and critics. chronologically. A few tales were published by Poe under more than one name, or under a name assigned by later Annotated translations of passages in French, Latin, Greek or other foreign languages, along with Poe’s own notes It’s not quite clear to the characters whether the trip actually occurred. Thus, the purpose of the tale is to make us believe that it actually did. Poe’s task is therefore to convince us of its veracity. He does this stylistically by containing enough empirical and scientific evidence to persuade us that this level of detail could only be known if the narrator had actually experienced what he purported to have. Poe achieves “plausibility by scientific detail”. Ironically, in an endnote, Poe differentiates his tale from earlier hoaxes (one of which adopts the tone of banter, the other being downright earnest). What differentiates his tale is that it is “an attempt at verisimilitude”.

Scrisă în 1835, ea prezintă călătoria pe lună a unui anumit olandez numit Hans Phaall, iar -lucru extrem de curios!- prezintă informaţii care sunt demne de ştiinţa de astăzi. Pe mine unul m-a făcut să plutesc în balonul improvizat de Hans Phaall, m-a făcut să privesc Terra de la înălţime şi mi-a stimulat imaginaţia până dincolo de hotarele pe care credeam eu că le avea. I didn’t know anything about his writing, except that I expected it to be a kind of guilty pleasure.number of copies printed is unknown, but probably fewer than 250.) (Facsimile reprint by George E. Hatvary and T. Another aspect of Poe is the unreliable narrator, and it was Cask that I had a teacher use to teach this technique. Fun fact, the term was coined in 1961 by Wayne C. Booth, and while Poe isn’t the first to use the technique he certainly perfected it and without a term for it yet I like to imagine people in 1846 reading Cask and after some pondering proclaiming ‘wait a gosh darn minute, that rat bastard was trying to pull one over on me, too!” Because you gotta shout your epiphanies. These items are arranged alphabetically by the name of the tale. Within each name, the items are listed

The Spectacles” comically cautions the reader against love at first sight, especially when you have less than perfect vision. In truth, while that virtue which consists in the mere avoidance of vice appeals directly to the understanding, and can thus be circumscribed in rule, the loftier virtue, which flames in creation, can be apprehended in its results alone. Rule applies but to the merits of denial - to the excellences which refrain. Beyond these, the critical art can but suggest.”

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Ceea ce am remarcat la Poe, în toate scrierile în care naratorul înfăptuieşte o crimă, e dorinţa lui de a tăia cadavrul în bucăţi şi a-l îngropa sub podea sau în perete. When divorced from his single-minded prosody, Poe's mastery of the language elegantly serves the needs of mood, characterization, and action. This is not always the case: his Ligeia retains his poetic narrowness, but his detective stories have a gentleness and wit found nowhere else in his oeuvre. Essays in Honor of Joel Myerson, ed. Wesley T. Mott, Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 1997, pp. listed, with an indication of the later name. (See, for example, “Epimanes.”) Each entry on this list Though it is impossible to name the most favourite tale now I remember when I read his stories first time in my childhood somehow I was hypnotized most by The Cask of Amontillado, probably because the festive atmosphere turns into the perfectly sinister one so unexpectedly.

I was aware that Poe specialised in mystery stories and that he had more or less invented the genre of detective fiction. What I didn’t know was that he also wrote relatively self-consciously in a metafictional sense. Not only did he invent a manner of writing, but he explained fairly insightfully what he was trying to accomplish, so that others could follow in his footsteps. The Murders in the Rue Morgue”, a detective story (in which Poe introduces M.Auguste Dupin), focusses on the process of detection, in particular, the role of rational analysis: Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before."I'm rating it two stars because overall I was underwhelmed, and the other option would be to not rate it at all—how do you rate someone's life's work? You can't. So I'll write down my thoughts on the four sections the book is divided in: Ulalume" - A poem about a man who wanders through the woods on the anniversary of his lover's death, haunted by the memory of her.

In the deepest slumber - no! In delirium - no! In a swoon - no! In death - no! Even in the grave all is not lost. Arousing from the most profound of slumbers, we break the gossamer web of some dream.” He who has never swooned, is not he who finds strange palaces and wildly familiar faces in coals that glow; is not he who beholds floating in mid-air the sad visions that the many may not view; is not he whose brain grows bewildered with the meaning of some musical cadence which has never before arrested his attention.” Un altul avea un braţ atât de lung încât putea să şadă la Damasc şi să scrie răvaş la Bagdad..." => Telegraful electric transmite ştirile instantaneu la orice distanţă, cel puţin pe pământ. I'm going for a 3.5 stars. I must be the only person in the known world that hasn't 5 starred Poe. I figured I would be a 5 star.The story satirises both science and knowledge, poking fun at Egyptology on the way. The prevailing attitude of the time was that in the Western world humanity had reached the height of civilization and knowledge due to scientific and industrial revolutions. The mummy is able to prove them mistaken at every point, and that his society's inventions were far from being inferior, and frequently superior. The only progress which is unquestionable seems to be the invention of cough drops. A nice touch is that the mummy of the title is called "Allamistakeo". Ei avea viermi în creieri. Viermii aceştia, prin zvârcolirile şi răsucirile lor, slujeau fără doar şi poate să dea naştere celor mai minunate avânturi ale închipuirii." => Entozoa sau viermii intestinali s-au găsit de nenumărate ori în muşchi şi în substanţa cerebrală a omului. Mie această proză scurtă mi-a adus aminte de două mari romane universale, "Doctor Faustus" şi "Maestrul şi Margareta", căci în paginile sale prezintă convorbirea unui filosof cu diavolul în vederea "cumpărării" sufletului în schimbul unui adevăr care are să-l facă celebru. Însă, bineînţeles, Pierre Bon-Bon este un filosof stoic şi "jocul pe degete" este reciproc, însă asta nu-l scuteşte de fatalitatea deciziei sale… We continued our route in search of the Amontillado. We passed through a range of low arches, descended, passed on, and descending again, arrived at a deep crypt, in which the foulness of the air caused our flambeaux rather to glow than flame. Edgar Allan Poe was known for his eloquent and poetic language, as well as his dark and mysterious themes. Here are some of his most famous quotes: