Poe, Sources and Influences

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Sources:

Shakespeare, William

Milton, John

Lord Byron

Pinkney, Edward Coote

Tennyson, Alfred (???)

Pope, Alexander

Swift, Johnathan (??)

“Of Coleridge I cannot speak but with reverence. His towering intellect! his gigantic power. . . . In reading his poetry I tremble — like one who stands upon a volcano, conscious, from the very darkness bursting from the crater, of the fire and the light that are weltering below.” (“Letter to B——”)

“As to Wordsworth, I have no faith in him. That he had, in youth, the feelings of a poet I believe — for there are glimpses of extreme delicacy in his writings . . . but they have the appearance of a better day recollected; and glimpses, at best, are little evidence of present poetic fire — we know that a few straggling flowers spring up daily in the crevices of the glacier.” (“Letter to B. — ”)

Influences:

Bloch, Robert

Borges, J.

Doyle, Arthur Conan

King, Stephen

Lovecraft, H. P.

Verne, Jules

Baudelaire, Charles

Mallarme, Stephen

Dostoevsky