What do you think of Edgar A. Poe?

Answer 1

He has amazing short stories and poems, but he was kind of a lunatic. He was in love with his 14 year old cousin i think and he was addicted to drugs, but he had a brilliant mind.

Answer 2

The more I learn of him, the more I realize he was a complex man who in some ways was ahead of his time. Growing up he was just a poet and an author of short stories, all of which tended to be more on the horror side. So I came to see him as one of the fathers of modern horror, if not the father. Then in recent years I've begun to learn of other sides. He was intrested in cryptology and wrote several essays on the subject, essays that, along with his short story "The Gold-Bug," got the field into the public at large and made even more people familar with it. His essay Eureka helped to introduce the ideas of blackholes and the big bang at least eighty years before these theories were released. He's the father of the murder/crime mystery. He wrote a single novel. He's been in inspiration to various authors in various fields of literature, including horror, sci-fi (among early sci-fi authors inspired by Poe's works are Jules Verne and H.G. Wells), and mystery. The more I learn about him, the more complex and intresting he bocomes.

Answer 3

In my opinion, Edgar Allan Poe is a genius. For some one to write and create such unique stories at his time, it's amazing. He created ideas that a lot of horror stories and movies are based on today. His stories and poetry might not seem that scary and creepy but all of them have a deeper meaning to them, and are psychologically thrilling.

Answer 4

When I used to teach college literature, I'd teach Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown," followed by Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado" followed by Stephen King's "Strawberry Spring," saying that these are, arguably, the masters of horror of the18th, 19th and 20th centuries. What I thought interesting was that Hawthorne's horror was more instructive, King's is more for sheer pleasure, but Poe's falls somewhere in between. There's a little moral to the story, but he's going to make it an enjoyable, scary story to instruct you with. I also think he was obsessed with being buried prematurely; there are too many instances of it in his work.

Answer 5

Without Poe, we would not have had the modern detective story as well as some integral, macabre tales of the American gothic tradition.

However, he liked to show himself to be more mysterious than he actually was. He had to sell books right, but sometimes you notice that flashiness in his writing. The language, although rich and incisive, gets away from itself from time to time. Still, his stories invoke a chilling mood like no other…read “The Black Cat” or “The Raven” in the dark, with a candle lit, in dead silence, alone…

Poe is one of my favorite authors, so I can affectionately criticize his work without hesitation

Answer 6

An eccentric--liked booze and drugs--was extremely creative. I used to like his works when I was a child--now I don't like suspense/horror/thriller type writings.

He has a cottage (now a small museum) in the Bronx--in a place which is now known as Poe Park. The house is extremely tiny...

Answer 7

Some of my favorite Poe works are Cask of Amontillado and the Tell Tale Heart. I'm not a fan of poetry in general, so his doesn't do much for me but I do like the Bells.

Answer 8

This is going to sound odd, but I get sick -usually with stomach flu- when I read Poe. I like him, he is good short story writer but I haven't tried him in years.

Answer 9

He is quite an amazing person.

He was very troubled and brought out feelings like fear in almost everyone who read his work.

We share a birthday January 19
(along with dolly parton and janis joplin)

Cool huh?

Answer 10

His writings have a uniqueness about them. And can contain all aspects of life. From romance to disturbance. I don't particularly like him. But some of his work is genius.