Who is Edgar Allan Poe?

Edgar Allan Poe & a Murder of Crows, July 2013 © Matt SOFFE (Freelance artist, UK).

       The name Poe brings to mind images of murderers and madmen, premature burials, and mysterious women who return from dead. His works have been in print since 1827 and include such literary classics as “The Tell-Tale Heart”, “The Raven”, “The Fall of the House of Usher”. This versatile writer’s oeuvre includes short stories, poetry, a novel, a textbook, a book of scientific theory, and hundreds of essays and book reviews. He is widely acknowledged as the inventor of the modern detective story and an innovator in the science fiction genre, but he made his living as America’s first great literary critic and theoretician. Poe’s reputation today rests primarily on his tales of terror as well as on his haunting lyric poetry.

Let's get it started!

Here we go, the first step is completed, I've finally managed to create my own blog. The most difficult thing in all this was to choose a background picture. Actually, I'm still not sure that the one I've chosen fits perfectly, because I used it judging only from the title. However, I can always change background image for it to be ideal for the plot of the story. 

As you've already noticed, I've chosen The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe for my stylistic analysis. I hope that this part of my stylistics course will bring me closer to the world of literature and deeper understanding of it's hidden treasures.

 So, let's proceed to the reading and we'll see...