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Edgar Allan Poe [1809 - 1849] Short-Story Writer American Poet Literary Critic Page prepared by Kirsten Boatwright |
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[It is] the ludicrous heightened into the grotesque: the fearful coloured into the horrible: the witty exaggerated into the burlesque: the singular wrought out into the strange and mystical. Letter from E.A. Poe to Thomas W. White April 30, 1835, Poe’s fascination with the grotesque |
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