On the other hand, Poe adds that “by undue profundity we perplex and enfeeble thought; and it is possible to make even Venus herself vanish from the firmament by a scrutiny too sustained, too concentrated, or too direct.” In contrast, the narrator of “Morella” longs for the death of his eponymous wife, who eventually dies while giving birth to a daughter with the same name and characteristics. The City in the Sea" - A poem about a sunken city ruled by Death, where the "ghouls" and "ghosts" wander.

The Complete Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe | Goodreads

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 complete text of all of the tales and poems written by Edgar Allan Poe (over 125 works), each elegantly formatted for ease of use and enjoyment on your Kindle reader. Edgar Allan Poe’s stories are the tales told by the raven on the longest winter night long after midnight… William Wilson": 5 - read 11/20/2021. Reminded me of "The Double" by Dostoevsky. He definitely took inspiration from Poe! There's also similarities to "The Picture of Dorian Gray," which makes me think Oscar Wilde was also inspired by Poe. Stories about doppelgängers are always unsettling to me. Poe continues into the realm of horror in “The Premature Burial”. Again, the narrator recites numerous real-life examples of such events to add to the veracity of his tale, before admitting that this event actually happened to him:

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Edgar Allan Poe was a master of macabre and suspenseful poetry. Some of his most famous poems include: The Pit and the Pendulum Along with the seventy-three short stories, essays and a novel, he wrote forty-nine poems which were often fuelled with his alcoholism and difficulty in finding a female partner. His poem Annabel Lee may have been inspired by four different women he was with during that period. His most famous poem is the brilliant Raven “And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting

The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe (Barnes

Desigur, povestea este prin excelenţă neverosimilă (căci distanţa dintre Pământ şi lună este totuşi considerabilă şi nu poate fi parcursă cu un balon), dar textul trebuie cântărit literar, nu ştiinţific (cu toate că Poe dovedeşte o excelentă erudiţie). 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".

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ochii celor mulţi nu pare profund decât acela care le înfăţişează lucruri în contradicţie acută cu părerea tuturor." In contrast, in “Von Kempelen and His Discovery”, the narrator detects that a paragraph in a newspaper detailing an invention is “apocryphal, principally upon its manner. It does not look true.” Ironically, what allows the narrator to come to this conclusion is an excess of particularity, which is not customary. Just as the bizarre characters in Poe’s stories have captured the public imagination so too has Poe himself. He is seen as a morbid, mysterious figure lurking in the shadows of moonlit cemeteries or crumbling castles. This is the Poe of legend. But much of what we know about Poe is wrong, the product of a biography written by one of his enemies in an attempt to defame the author’s name.