Edgar Allen Poe “The Fall of the House of Usher” An Author Unlike Any Other During the nineteenth century, literary writers were encouraged in transcendentalism. Their main focus was on capturing the spirituality in nature. For example, authors such as Henry Thoreau and Ralph Emerson were dominating the world of poetry and prose with their tales of nature. From Thoreau’s’ journey through the Maine Woods to Emerson’s Nature, the transcendental ere, was in …showed first 75 words of 1237 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1237 total…being and or his presence in Nature, then the transcendentalist would be your choice of author. However, if you want to be entertained by horror and become so obsessed with the concept of death that you question your won sanity, bay all means seek the master—Edgar Allen Poe. Bibliography WORKS CITED Poe, Edgar Allen. “The Fall of the House of Usher.” The American Tradition in Literature. Ed. Barbara and George Perkins. Boston: McGraw-Hill College, 1999.