Edgar Allan Poe’s Literary Legacy
Words: 1498 1164Introduction Few American literary figures have cast as long a shadow over both popular culture and serious literary criticism as Edgar Allan Poe. Born in 1809 and dying under mysterious circumstances just forty years later, Poe's relatively brief literary career produced works that would fundamentally transform multiple genres and establish narrative techniques still studied and emulated today. As a master of the short story, pioneer of detective fiction, innovator in science fiction, and architect of the modern psychological thriller, Poe […]
