Seminar 2. Po

Edgar Allan Poe
Required reading: Adventure stories (“The Gold Bug”, “MS Found in the Bottle”, etc.);
Detective stories (“The Murders in Rue Morgue”, “The Purloined Letter”, “The Mystery of Mary
Rogêt”, etc.); Horror stories (“The Fall of the House of Usher”, “The Masque of the Red Death”,
“Ligeia” etc.); Humor stories (“A Tale of Jerusalem”, “The Thousand-and-Second Tale of
Scheherazade”, etc.); Poems (“Raven”, “Annabel Lee”, “Lenore” and other poems)
Brodey K., Malgaretti F. Focus on English and American Literature. M., Айрис-Пресс, 2003.
Highlights of American Literature. N.Y., 1992. Другое издание: Хрестоматия американской
литературы. М., 1997.
Supplementary literature: Литературная история Соединенных Штатов Америки. Т.2. Под

ред. Р.Спиллера и др. М., 1977.
Ковалев С. Эдгар Аллан По. М., 1979.
1. E.A. Poe’s life and its influence upon his creative work.
Edgar Allan Poe was an American poet, short-story writer, editor and literary
critic. He is considered part of the American Romantic Movement. He was the first
well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone, resulting
in a financially difficult life and career.
Edgar Poe, whose parents died when he was young, was adopted by John and
Frances Allan. In 1827 he switched his focus to prose and spent the next several
years working for literary journals and periodicals, becoming known for his own
style of literary criticism. In 1835, he married Virginia Clemm, his 13-year-old
cousin. In January 1845, Poe published his poem “The Raven” to instant success.
His wife died of tuberculosis two years later. He began planning to produce his
own journal, though he died before it could be produced. On October 7, 1849, at
age 40, Poe died in Baltimore; the cause of his death is unknown and has been
attributed to alcohol, brain congestion, cholera, drugs, heart disease, rabies,
suicide, tuberculosis, and other agents.
Poe and his works influenced literature in the United States and around the
world, as well as in specialized fields, such as cosmology and cryptography.
2. Speak about of E.A. Poe’s achievements in prose and verse
He was a magazine editor, a poet, a short story writer, a critic, and a lecturer.
He introduced the British horror story, or the Gothic genre, to American literature,
along with the detective story, science fiction, and literary criticism. Poe became a
key figure in the nineteenth-century flourishing of American letters and literature.
He was a magazine editor, a poet, a short story writer, a critic, and a lecturer.
He introduced the British horror story, or the Gothic genre, to American literature,
along with the detective story, science fiction, and literary criticism. Poe became a
key figure in the nineteenth-century flourishing of American letters and literature.
Gothic literature, a genre that rose with Romanticism in Britain in the late
eighteenth century, explores the dark side of human experience—death, alienation,
nightmares, ghosts, and haunted landscapes. Poe brought the Gothic to America.
American Gothic literature dramatizes a culture plagued by poverty and slavery
through characters afflicted with various forms of insanity and melancholy. Poe,
America’s foremost southern writer before William Faulkner, generated a Gothic
ethos from his own experiences in Virginia and other slaveholding territories, and
the black and white imagery in his stories reflects a growing national anxiety over
the issue of slavery.
3. The works of American author Edgar Allan Poe include many poems, short
stories, and one novel. His fiction spans multiple genres, including horror fiction,
adventure, science fiction, and detective fiction, a genre he is credited with
inventing. These works are generally considered part of the Dark romanticism
movement, a literary reaction to Transcendentalism. Poe's writing reflects his
literary theories: he disagreed with didacticism and allegory. Meaning in literature,
he said in his criticism, should be an undercurrent just beneath the surface; works
whose meanings are too obvious cease to be art. He often included elements of
popular pseudosciences such as phrenology and physiognomy.
Speak about the genres (provide numerous examples!) Poe tried his hand in.

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