Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe was an American author, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement, Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre.Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre. 
His publishing career began humbly, with an anonymous collectionof poems, Tamerlane and Other Poems.
Poe switched his focus to prose and spent the next several years working for literary journals and periodicals, becoming known for his own style of literarycriticism.
In 1840 released information announcing its intention to create their own journals, the Stylus.
According to Poe, the highest literary expression was poetry, and she dedicated their bestefforts
. On October 7, 1849, at age 40, Poe died in Baltimore; the cause of his death is unknown.
The figure of the writer, as well as his work profoundly influenced the literature of his country andarguably the world. Exerted great influence on the Symbolist literature francesa6 and, through it, in surrealism

The works of American author Edgar Allan Poe include many poems, short stories, and onenovel. His fiction spans multiple genres, including horror fiction, adventure, science fiction, and detective fiction, a genre he is credited with inventing.
These works are generally consideredpart of the Dark romanticism movement, a literary reaction to Transcendentalism.
Though known as a masterful practitioner of Gothic fiction, Poe did not invent the genre; he was following along-standing popular tradition

Among the major works of Edgar Allan Poe highlights especially numerous short stories, as the horror The Fall of the House Usher, The Premature Burial, The Pit and the Pendulum,The Cask of Amontillado, The Facts in the Case of Mr. Valdemar, Ligeia, The Tell-Tale Heart, The black cat, his only novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, his poetry, as The Raven and Other...