... the Romantics, the Gothic Romantics acknowledged the evil of man and the horror of evil. However, like Romantics, Gothic Romantics valued intuition and emotion over logic and reason and saw symbols, spiritual truths, and signs in nature. Characteristics used in gothic romance are melancholy, gloom, psychological components, elements of the supernatural, and dark spaces. The elements in Edgar Allan Poe's literature ... the idea of the horror of evil. This was an idea that was different from that of the other Romantics. More writing like Poe's arrived afterwards such as Mary Shelly's "Fra...

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