... 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 ... townspeople of Tilbury, whose inner depths of character are presented with acute understanding and irony. In 1899 Robinson moved to New York City, where his volume Captain Craig and Other Poems (1902) attract...

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... not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world." Compare this with a more rhymed and classical sounding piece by Whitman's contemporary, Edgar Allan Poe, entitled "Hymn to Aristogeiton and Harmodious": "Ye deliverers of Athens from shame! Ye avengers of Liberty's wrongs! Endless ages shall cherish your fame embalmed in their echoing songs ... (Poe 50) !" One would never find Walt Whitman writing about Greek gods, or using the words "ye", "ev"n", or any other antiquated word. This is just another way in which Walt ... and gratitude toward...

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