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is Longfellows shorter poems that have made him Americas best-known poet, of which the most famous is A Psalm of Life ( {^.i^SQ ) . Longfellows works are highly spiritual. He emphasizes the mysteries of birth , death and love. His poems are filled with melody and charm of meter. 5. Edgar Allan Poe (jl^gjto • gffe • tgi,l809—lSWMm^,^^^W Edgar Allan Poe has been held among the greatest poets and the most popular of American authors due to his great literary success. He is the first American profes- sional writer and the first writer of detective story in the world . He had a short life of poverty , anxiety and fantastic tragedy. Poe was born in Boston, orphaned at 2 and adopted by John Allan , a tobacco exporter. His Poems appeared in 183 1 , which consisted some of his best poems , like To Helen ( USiW^} ) . In 1847 his wife died , he drank heavily and became addic- ted to the use of opium . In 1849 , he was picked up unconscious on the street of Bal- timore ( E^p^^) and died the following day at the age of 40. His best famous poems are The Raven ({S^}) and Annabel Lee «^%j)W • ^)» and his most famous novel is The Fall of the House of Usher ((JE^ITOWl)) • 6. Harriet Beecher Stowe (ftlOT^ • UN • Wt,1811—1896,^Ilil^fl-:^) The success of Uncle Toms Cabin ((^fiS-JSJS^^J^iS))) did a great service to the anti-slavery movement and brought its author, Mrs. Stowe an immediate popular- ity. President Lincoln praised her as the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war . Uncle Toms Cabin is