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Edgar Allen Poe爱伦·坡 (1809—1849) Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) father of modern short story father of detective story father of psychoanalytic criticism E.A. Poe (1809—1849) Important Points 1. Poe’s major works. 2. Poe’s literary characteristics and achievements Introduction Introduction Introduction Introduction Poe’s Major Literary Works works The Philosophy of Composition 《创作原理》 The Poetic Principle 《诗歌原则》 Themes Poe’s theory for poetry Poe’s theory for short story Short story should be of brevity, totality, single effect, compression(压缩) and finality. Poe’s achievement 1. His aesthetics, his call for the rhythmical creation of beauty have influenced French symbolists and the devotees of art for arts sake. 2. He is the father of psychoanalytic(心理分析的) criticism. 3. He is the father of the detective story. To Helen Helen, thy beauty is to meLike those Nicean barks of yore,That gently, oer a perfumed sea,The weary, wayworn wanderer boreTo his own native shore. On desperate seas long wont to roam,Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face,Thy Naiad airs have brought me homeTo the glory that was GreeceAnd the grandeur that was Rome. Lo! in yon brilliant window-nicheHow statue-like I see thee stand,The agate lamp within thy hand!Ah, Psyche, from the regions whichAre Holy Land! WALT WHITMAN 1819-1892 Walt Whitman,Leaves of Grass (first edition). Frontispiece: Samuel Hollyer engraving based on a Gabriel Harrison daguerreotype. Brooklyn: 1855Rare Book Special Collections Division, Library of Congress. Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass (fifth edition).  Walt Whitman,Leaves of Grass (first edition). Brooklyn: 1855Rare Book Special Collections Division, Library of Congress.Cover Art. Editions of Leaves of GrassBrooklyn: 1855; Brooklyn: 1856; Boston: 1860-1861; New York: 1869; Washington: 1871; Camden, New Jersey: 1876; Boston: 1881-1882; Philadelphia: 1888, Philadelphia: 1891-1892.Library of Congress. Recommended Website: /exhibits/treasures/w