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...Guinea Pig. In his short life he produced 14 books-poems, novels, short stories-some masterly, some amateurish. He pursued an erratic career as reporter and war correspondent. He made punishing journeys to wars and insurrections, and he acquired a Bohemian notoriety that reads like a composite of Poe and De Quincey. A rebellious spirit, he took a peculiarly joyless pleasure in scandalizing the age. A groundless charge of drug addiction provoked a characteristic response: he concocted a piece on the opium habit...
Matthiessen believed that "in the broadest sense, most of our later poets can be described as descendants of Whitman or as descendants of Poe," and consequently he accords large sections of his book to these two "pivotal figures...
Early settlers chose the American continent and "burned their boats behind them," Wilder said. Out of their independence grew the writings of Thoreau, Melville, Poe, and Emily Dickenson, which expressed a "totally new view of the human situation...
Bestsellers have never been Conrad Aiken's forte. He reached the peak of his reputation during the '20s, when he wrote long and languid narratives about sexual decadence, blending the theories of Sigmund Freud with the tone of Edgar Allan Poe. In 1930, his poetry won him a Pulitzer Prize. Since then, Aiken has increasingly found himself in the painful position of the good minor writer who has ceased to be a novelty, his name well known but his work little read. Never one to cater to literary fashion, Aiken has continued to write as he sees...
Edgar Allan Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death," the first show in the "Nevermore" series, goes on the air tomorrow evening...