埃德加·爱伦·坡 (Edgar Allan Poe) 给令人毛骨悚然的礼物——他发现潜伏在事物核心的奇怪之处的天才——是如此非凡,以至于他对波德莱尔和法国象征主义、弗洛伊德分析以及侦探小说和好莱坞电影产生了重大影响 . 他的心理深刻故事讲述了与奇妙的、不可思议的和可怕的代表相遇——与爱默生和惠特曼等作家的乐观主义形成鲜明对比——十九世纪美国情感的另一个阴暗面。
Edgar Allan Poe's gift for the macabre-his genius in finding the strangeness lurking at the heart of things-was so extraordinary that he exerted a major influence on Baudelaire and French symbolism, on Freudian analysis, and also on the detective novel and the Hollywood movie. His psychologically profound stories of encounters with the marvelous, the uncanny, and the dreadful represent-in contrast to the optimism of writers like Emerson and Whitman-the other, darker side of the nineteenth-century American sensibility.
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