Introduction Edgar Allan Poe is today known as one of the most prominent writers during the 19th century. Many of us know him as a critic, poet and a novelist. However, he was also a language-maker and exalter of ‘the power of words” during his lifetime. Perhaps this is the most obvious proof, I believe, that makes it easy to understand why his works has such a unique style. Poe self claimed that all his …showed first 75 words of 3920 total…

…showed last 75 words of 3920 total…and Susan, editors. The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1990. Wilbur, R. Modern Critical Views on Edgar Allan Poe. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1985 producing this effect is the most melancholy, the emotion educed by the contemplation of the death of a beautiful woman Supernatural reincarnation perversity Symbols often in Poe's writings, always' representing the destructiveness of Time, the ultimate enemy of our happiness