Jacket Status Jacketed Edgar Allan Poes gift for the macabre his genius infinding the strangeness lurking at the heart of thingswas so extraordinarythat he exer... » 

Jacket Status Jacketed Edgar Allan Poes gift for the macabre his genius infinding the strangeness lurking at the heart of thingswas so extraordinarythat he exerted a major influence on Baudelaire and French symbolism onFreudian analysis and also on the detective novel and the Hollywood movie. Hispsychologically profound stories of encounters with the marvelous the uncannyand the dreadful representin contrast to the opti? mism of writers likeEmerson and Whitman the other darker side of the nineteenthcentury Americansensibility. «