Edgar Allan Poe is considered to be one of the greatest poets and writers of short story fiction. He is branded as the father of the American short story and father of the detective story. Poe is primarily known for writing horror/gothic stories, but also has another fame in which he wrote detective stories and in fact started the whole genre of detective fiction. He practically created the detective story and perfected the psychological thriller. Poe did not write any detective novels, just short stories that later on became the most influential pieces of work for the detective story genre. M...

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... for Death" (recited by an actor), Dickinson focused on themes relating to death, eternity, and love, usually in short four-line stanzas. C. Edgar Allan Poe- The short stories and poetry of 19th-century American Edgar Allan Poe reflect the writer's haunting imagination. Poe, one of the earliest masters of short story writing, created the first detective stories. His "The Gold Bug" (1843) tells the tale ... his unrhymed free verse which uses precise and vivid images to portray the energy and brutality of American urban industrial life. Sandburg also wrote what is generally considered the ...

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Throughout literary history, critics have discussed the greatest authors of all time. C.S. Lewis, Edgar Allen Poe, and Harper Lee are noteworthy to mention but so are F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway. Crowned as two ... This generation described the writing styles such as this, "both characterized the postwar generation and the literary movement it produced" (Ernest Hemingway Biography). Authors like Hemingway and Fitzgerald, "decried the false ideals of patriotism that led young people to war, only to the benefit of materialistic elders ... . These writers held that the only truth wa...

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... become a brilliant woman and became famous for her work To Kill a Mockingbird. Critics say that Lee based the character of Dill, an extremely imaginative young boy on Capote. In Discovering Biography, Capote says, "(As a child) I was very insecure and lonely. I was an only child, very sensitive, intelligent, with no sense of being particularly wanted by anyone it was just total emotional ... that, he won his first award for writing, the O. Henry Award. According to Discovering Biography, Miriam typifies Capote's early manners. It is a story of isolation, dread, and psychological breakdo...

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