1. Poe and the Motif of Madness
With his masterly art of depicting bizarre and mysterious atmosphere, Edgar Allan Poe is considered the most distinctive personage of the American Romantic Movement. ... In the essay "The Philosophy of Composition" Poe argues that work of literary art should attain unity of effect, which he view as a point of the greatest importance. ... " Edgar Allan Poe became famous also for his developing of the Gothic literary tradition. ... " But in order not to just echo the Gothic writers before him Poe added something new to his borrowings and transformed the Gothic tale into some...
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