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【标题】《乌鸦》中的“美” 【作者】胡红梅 【关键词】艾伦?坡;??美;??忧郁;??诗歌;??方法 【指导老师】刘婷婷 【专业】英语 【正文】I. IntroductionA. The Introduction of Poet?Poe is one of the most outstanding and controversial literary figures in the American literature, he was ever at the bottom of the list of the nineteenth-century American Romanticism, for his creative techniques and literary theories were different from the main stream in the field of literature in his time. He is one of the greatest and unhappiest American poets, a master of the horror tale, and the patron saint of the detective story. He first gained critical acclaim in France and England. His reputation in America was relatively slight until the French influenced writers like Ambrose Bierce, Robert; W.Chambers had interest in his work. He received overwhelming welcome in Europe and Latin America. Baudelaire, Swinburne, Bernard Shaw, D. H Lawrence and W. H. Auden all admired and spoke highly of him. Poe’s great influence spread all over the world from France. His tales and poems have been continuously translated into Chinese, and many Chinese writers are influenced by him in different aspects.Edgar Allen Poe was born in Boston in 1809, Massachusetts. His parents were all itinerant actors. He spent his teenager in Virginia. Poe’s life had no happy time. His father David Poe JR died probably in 1810. His mother Elizabeth Hopkins Poe died in 1811, leaving three children. Edgar was taken into the home of a Richmond merchant John Allen. He received advanced education in England. Then they came back to America. At the age of five, Poe could recite passage of English poetry, one of his teachers in Richmond said:?“while the other boys wrote mere mechanic verses, Poe wrote genuine poetry, the boy was a born poet.”1Poe was brought up partly in England; where he attended manor school at stoke Newington. Later it became the seething for his story William Wilson never legally adopted. Poe took Allen’s name for his middle name. Poe attended the unive