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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. * In this term, we’ll have different periods of classes on odd and even weeks The House of the Seven Gables 1851 The Blithedale Romance 1852 The Marble Faun 1860 《七个尖角阁的房子》 《福谷传奇》 《大理石雕像》 “Young Goodman Brown” “The Minister’s Black Veil” “Dr. Rappacini’s Daughter” 《好小伙儿布朗》 《教长的黑面纱》 《拉普齐尼博士的女儿》 Life Salem Massachusetts. ancestors prominence Puritan theocracy 17th C New England colonial magistrate persecution of the Quakers judge Salem Witchcraft Trial four father died maternal relatives financed Bowdoin College. classmates Horatio Bridge Henry Wadsworth Longfellow President Franklin Pierce supplied Cooper conventionality传统 first imitated Scott Fanshawe. early work inexperienced youth. 1836 - 1844 Transcendentalist movement Emerson intellectual circles. fiancée Sophia Peabody the newness, 1841 $1500 Brook Farm Utopian Community disillusioned Transcendentalist influence individual choice and consequence symbolism. first true psychological novel The Scarlet Letter contrasting puritan morality with passion and individualism. Influences on Hawthorne Salem - early childhood Custom House. Puritan family