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Published: 19.04.2004.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
References: Not used
  • Essays 'Composition and plot in "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe', 1.
  • Essays 'Composition and plot in "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe', 2.
Extract

Edgar Allan Poe is one of the greatest representatives of American Romanticism. He is writer and poet, which was misunderstood by America, his native country, of yesterday and is appreciated by America of today. In his works Poe writes much about the Beauty and its role in man's life. Beauty has always fascinated him, as well as other romanticists, only Poe's beauty has some elements of strangeness in it. This moment of strangeness gives a special aura of mysticism and unusualness to Poe's works. This aura will not leave the reader of Poe's tales or poems all the time. Besides this mystery…

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