... one of the first to discern the tendency of the afe toward " the curt, the condensed, the pointed, the readily diffused". In one of Poe's famous critical pieces, he recognized Hawthorne as on of our " few men of indisputable genius"; he went on to formulate his famous conception of the short story, which must be designed for " a single effect" and every ... talked about the Raven for years after Poe's death, and still the words spoken of it are as positive as they were at the time it was published. (Hough 24) Nathaniel Parker Willis, in an introductory to The Raven, said: We are permitt...

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