Edgar Allan Poe

Name: Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque
Author: Edgar Allan Poe

Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque (1840)

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“Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque”, published in 1840, is a work by Edgar Allan Poe. It explores elements such as Poe, tale and taste.

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Edgar Allan Poe, Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque (1840)

“ He is one of the very few American writers who blend philosophy common sense, humor and poetry smoothly together... He lays his hand upon the wild steeds of his imagination, and they plunge furiously through storm and tempest, or foam along through the rattling thunder-cloud; or, at his bidding, they glide swiftly and noiselessly along the quiet and dreamy lake, or among the whispering bowers of thought and feeling...There are few writers in this country — take Neal, Irving, and Willis away, and we would say none — who can compete successfully in many respects with Poe. ”

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Edgar Allan Poe, Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque (1840)

“ Poe possesses an extraordinary faculty. He paints the palpable obscure with strange power, throwing over his pictures a sombre gloom which is appalling. The images are dim, but distinct; shadowy but well-defined. The outline indeed is all we see; but there they stand, shrouded in darkness, and fright us with the mystery which defies farther scrutiny... His genius, as well as private history, puts us in mind of that of Coleridge. ”

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Edgar Allan Poe, Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque (1840)

“ He discovers a superior capacity and a highly cultivated taste... A gentleman of fine endowments, possessing a taste classical and refined, an imagination affluent and splendid, and withal a singular capacity for minute and mathematical detail... We always predicted that he would reach a high grade in American literature... "Morella" will unquestionably prove that Mr. Poe has great powers of imagination, and a command of language never surpassed. We doubt if anything in the same style can be cited which contains more terrific beauty than this tale. ”

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Edgar Allan Poe, Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque (1840)

“ Poe, is very interesting — a well told tale.
— Phil. U. S. Gazette (Jos. R. Chandler) . Many of these tales are of a very high order of merit, and have been admired wherever they have been perused by men of mind. Mr. Poe is no imitator in story-telling. He has a peculiarity of his own — dealing often in rather wild imaginings, and yet he always contrives to sustain his plots with so much novelty of incident, that you must read him out in spite of any sober realities that may occasionally flit across the mind. ”

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Edgar Allan Poe, Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque (1840)

“ If in many of my productions terror has been the thesis, I maintain that terror is not of Germany, but of the soul, — that I have deduced this terror only from its legitimate sources, and urged it only to its legitimate results. ”

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Edgar Allan Poe, Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque (1840)

“ Of the lighter contributions — of the diamonds which sparkle beside the more sombre gems, commend us, thou spirit of eccentricity, forever and a day, to "The Duc de L'Omelette," — the best thing of the kind we ever have read or ever expect to read. ”

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Edgar Allan Poe, Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque (1840)

“ There is also a sketch of much power and peculiar interest, entitled "The House of Usher" which cannot fail to attract attention — ... a remarkable specimen of a style of writing which possesses many attractions for those who love to dwell upon the terrible. ”

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Edgar Allan Poe, Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque (1840)

“ Pennsylvanian (Jos. C. Neal) . Mr. Poe's story of "The House of Usher" would have been considered a chef d'oevre if it had appeared in the pages of Blackwood.
— N. Y. Evening Star. "Lionizing" by Mr. Poe is an inimitable piece of wit and satire; and the man must be far gone in a melancholic humor whose risibility is not moved by this tale.
— S. Lit. Messenger (E. Vernon Sparhawk) . Mr. Poe's "Hans Phaall" will add much to his reputation as an imaginative writer. ”

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