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Poe’s reputation was first made in France. Charles Baudelaire said that “Edgar Poe, who isn’t much in America, must become a great man in France.” Today, Poe’s particular power has ensured his position among the greatest writers of the world. The majority of critics today, in America as well as in the world, have recognized the real, unique importance of Poe as a great writer of fiction, a poet of the first rank, and a critic of acumen and insight. His works are read the world over. His influence in world-wide in modern literature. * Story Overview—Climax He read on - this time, a passage that described the knight‘s fatal blow to a dragon, which then cried out with a long piercing wail. Again there immediately emanated from the dark recesses(墙壁凹处）of the house a similar shriek. The narrator kept reading. Now the book told of “the clangorous（叮当响的）， sound of a knights shield falling to the ground - and once again, the narrator heard a distinct metallic ringing noise. Story Overview—Climax At this, he turned to Usher, who made a chilling announcement: he had buried his sister alive! All week he had listened to her stirring in her coffin; heard her struggles; felt the beating of her heart. “And now - tonight ... the rending（用力撕开）of her coffin, and the grating （摩擦声）of the iron hinges of her prison, and her struggles within the copper archway of the vault（地下室）! The heavy and horrible beating of her heart .... Madman! I tell you that she stands without the door!” Story Overview—Climax At that, the antique doors flung open, and there stood the hideous, bloodstained apparition（幽灵）of Lady Madeline. With her last burst of energy, and with a bloodcurdling（恐怖的）scream, she fell on her brother, and in her violent and now final death-agonies, bore him to the floor, a corpse, a victim to the terrors he had anticipated. Story Overview —Ending The narrator fled down the shadowy balls and from the house. At some distance, he glanced back. There, in the light of the full, settin