Word: poe
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...would much rather have written the best song of a nation than its noblest epic." So said Edgar Allan Poe, the 19th century American poet, teller of horror tales and inventor of the detective story. A vulnerable sort, tormented by melancholy and eventually by drink, he was infatuated with the mystery and dramatic power of music. Years after his death in 1849, composers-Sousa, Rachmaninoff, Debussy-found themselves equally fascinated by the music of his words...
...memory and culture-an outgrowth of romanticism that, by the end of the 19th century, had accumulated a formidable literature. Cornell, who worshiped Mallarmé for his exactitude of feeling, was the last symbolist poet-a pretty symmetry, for the symbolists were much inspired by another American, Edgar Allan Poe...
...Like Poe, Cornell was obsessed with a dream Europe. Cornell's Europe, however, ended with World War I and perpetuated itself in hotel letterheads from French spas, fragments of Baedeker maps and reverent evocations of ballerinas, from Marie Taglioni to Loie Fuller. It lasted from the 15th century to la Belle Epoque; his boxes preserve it like microscope slides...
Edgar Allan Poe was the first great master of the new art of the uncanny. In The Telltale Heart, The Masque of the Red Death and The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar, he made the horror story a respectable literary form. But only a handful of literary terrorists (Hawthorne, James, Chekhov, Gogol) wrote tales as eerily disturbing as Poe's. Only one (Franz Kafka) found the ladder to a deeper gallery of madness...
...Poe. This one sounds implausible, but everyone from George Eastman (collaborating on a version of The Fall of the House of Usher) to Roger Corman (Tales of Terror) has done Poe, so who knows. It's Spirits of the Dead, a collection of three Poe short stories, directed by Fellini, Louis Malle and......Roger Vadim. Starring Jane Fonda and Brigitte Bardot. The original title for this was apparently Histories Extraordinaires, but the simple change to Extraordinary Stories, or even Strange Tales, must have been deemed unsuitable...