2007-07-17 09:27:13 · 16 answers · asked by K. Marx iii 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
He said democracy is good - for dogs. What a hoot!
2007-07-17 10:04:35 · update #1
YES. Tales of terror is now showing on sky, and still gives me the shivers. i am almost 60yrs and Edgar Alan Poe was the horror movies i went to see at the movies when i was courting. Somethings never change, not even remakes can match the early films. And if you'r a fan you know his book's will keep you awake. So enjoy.
2007-07-17 09:53:17 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think you'll find a great many people like Poe. I find him rather fascinating, especially when I learn a new aspect of him. Horror author (Tell-tale Heart, The Black Cat, Masque of the Red Deat, and others certainly have a horror element to them), father of the detective mystery (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle said that the genre would have been non-exsistent without Poe and his character C. Auguste Dupin), a man who helped introduce the field of cryptology to a much wider audieance (his works in the field were still being used by the British during WWI), he suggested the exsistence of blackholes and the big bang long before these theories were actually introduced (in his essay Eureka), besides poems and short stories he also wrote a single novel (The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket) and started an unfinshed serial novel (The Journal of Julius Rodman), sci-fi authors such as Jules Verne and H.G. Wells found inspiration for their work in Poe's writing, and he was a literary critic to boot.
2007-07-17 17:42:08 · answer #2 · answered by knight1192a 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I love Edgar Allen Poe!!! I like the story, The Tell Tale Heart, and the poem, The Raven.
Once upon a midnite dreary while i pondered weak and weary oer a many quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore while i nodded nearly napping suddenly there came a tapping as of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door "tis some visitor" i muttered "tapping at my chamber door. only this and nothing more"
Pure genius!!
2007-07-17 16:32:22 · answer #3 · answered by OMG Lizard In A Can! :D 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I do. Both the poetry and the stories. I haven't read him in a while, but I remember the musical quality of poems like Annabel Lee, The Bells, and of course, The Raven.
2007-07-17 16:37:18 · answer #4 · answered by Letizia 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Edgar Allan Poe is a god of literature. I am proud to be his countryman and his disciple.
2007-07-17 16:57:25 · answer #5 · answered by Dear Carlos 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes, and he is the only poet with a football team in his honor situated in his hometown. Baltimore Ravens, take that Robert Frost.
2007-07-17 16:33:28 · answer #6 · answered by Billy Dee 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Like Dani, "The Tell Tale Heart" is one of my favorites, along with The Raven. I don't remember the name of the story where he killed the wife and sealed her in a brick wall down in the basement. The police discovered the body behind the wall by following the screams coming from BEHIND it. The guy thought it was his wife haunting him, but it turned out it was her CAT, who stayed by his mistress' side - alive, and PISSED! I liked that one, too!
2007-07-17 16:38:52 · answer #7 · answered by LuLu 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Love him.. I remember being younger and reading my little brother the Raven - and he would get freaked out. He's 17 and still gets scared about thunderstorms though lol.
2007-07-17 16:31:04 · answer #8 · answered by Ms. Lady 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
When I was a toddler I believe Poe was for me.
2007-07-17 16:38:43 · answer #9 · answered by jayemess 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Love that dude~ quoth the raven lol
2007-07-17 16:35:34 · answer #10 · answered by kaizoku 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋