dec 30, 1808 - E.A. Poe is born

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born Boston, grew up in Virginia.

Gothic/Dark Romanticism: Feeling and emotion vs. rationality and facts.

Short story pioneer: Horror was the trend of the time but what Poe did transcended the genre because of his attention to: FORM (Brevity - short enough to read in one sitting) , STYLE (The unity of effect: intense and singular experience), RYTHM (Musicality), PSYCHOLOGICAL( unreliable narrators: makes the reader a participant, DEPTH.

Explored many genres. Apart from his famous short stories, he invented the first detective story that we know nowadays (Murders in the Rue Morgue"; Social and literary trends (close to sci-fi, the supernatural); Adventure novels; and Poetry ( musically speaking: haunting and hypnotic Songs of Grief, The Raven....

BIO:
Poe lived in poverty throughout his career.
Pothumous fame. Ahead of his time. His past was marked by early loss of her mother and later loss of his wife due to TB.
Joined the US Army.
Struggled with alcoholism and gambling.
Unable to support himself: was a known editor and critic.
Source of distress and sorrow in his life: gamble, mental illness, drinking...
Died outside a tavern.

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