tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470604276410220159.post1063210366488295078..comments2023-11-05T02:57:06.922-05:00Comments on The Vault of Horror: Edgar Allen Poe: The BicentennialB-Solhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10717121313061173603noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470604276410220159.post-32653462058507650202009-01-28T13:10:00.000-05:002009-01-28T13:10:00.000-05:00Hey, thanks! Hopefully none of my old professors a...Hey, thanks! Hopefully none of my old professors are reading, or my degree might be revoked!B-Solhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10717121313061173603noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470604276410220159.post-30698673084878136282009-01-28T12:22:00.000-05:002009-01-28T12:22:00.000-05:00Great post - unfortunately, your appreciation for ...Great post - unfortunately, your appreciation for Poe is undermined by the misspelling of his name! His name is and always has been "Edgar <B>Allan</B> Poe." Nonetheless, a great tribute.Rob Velellahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14284492589098267999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470604276410220159.post-39573748465530879662009-01-23T10:17:00.000-05:002009-01-23T10:17:00.000-05:00RayRay - That passage was also pure Lovecraft, flo...RayRay - That passage was also pure Lovecraft, flowery, poetic, yet forboding. You should really check out this collection, the home site is:<BR/><BR/>http://terror.snm-hgkz.ch/lovecraft/html/<BR/><BR/>This has just about everything Lovecraft ever published, from his stories, poetry and essays.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470604276410220159.post-72631809611671703752009-01-22T13:56:00.000-05:002009-01-22T13:56:00.000-05:00Terrific passage! Lovecraft definitely hits on som...Terrific passage! Lovecraft definitely hits on something when he talks about the "narcotic" quality of Poe's prose.B-Solhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10717121313061173603noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470604276410220159.post-51994380813441443992009-01-22T11:26:00.000-05:002009-01-22T11:26:00.000-05:00RayRay - B-Sol, I didn't know the answer to your q...RayRay - B-Sol, I didn't know the answer to your question. But a little googling lead me to the essay found at this link [which is part of a wonderful site with a comprehensive HPL collection]: http://terror.snm-hgkz.ch/lovecraft/html/super.htm. This is a essay entitled Supernatural Horror in Literature, and HPL essentially says Poe started it all. <BR/><BR/>An excerpt: "Certain of Poe's tales possess an almost absolute perfection of artistic form which makes them veritable beacon-lights in the province of the short story. Poe could, when he wished, give to his prose a richly poetic cast; employing that archaic and Orientalised style with jeweled phrase, quasi-Biblical repetition, and recurrent burthen so successfully used by later writers like Oscar Wilde and Lord Dunsany; and in the cases where he has done this we have an effect of lyrical phantasy almost narcotic in essence -- an opium pageant of dream in the language of dream, with every unnatural colour and grotesque image bodied forth in a symphony of corresponding sound."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470604276410220159.post-45453102201151219682009-01-21T22:22:00.000-05:002009-01-21T22:22:00.000-05:00Ray, would you happen to know what Lovecraft's att...Ray, would you happen to know what Lovecraft's attitude/opinion toward Poe was? Obviously, he was an influence, but did Lovecraft recognize him as one? <BR/>Poe was a scathing critic, but like Twain, he was usually on the money with the literary sacred cows he chose to skewer. In literary circles, for example, Longfellow has really fallen off in recent decades.B-Solhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10717121313061173603noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470604276410220159.post-42234819616974737022009-01-21T16:30:00.000-05:002009-01-21T16:30:00.000-05:00RayRay - Last weekend I saw a wonderful documentar...RayRay - Last weekend I saw a wonderful documentary about Poe on a Sussex County Community College TV station while I was up in Jersey. I have always enjoyed Poe - he was probably the first horror writer I ever tried to delve into as a kid, and I found him to be, with a little work, rather accessible.<BR/><BR/>While watching this program I was struck at the acid Poe poured on his contemporaries when he critiqued their work, which was his central vocation according to the show. To those poets and writers we now hold high, like Longfellow, he had no regard.<BR/><BR/>I was also impressed at how similar he was to one of my other favorites writers, H.P. Lovecraft. Both were weird, anachronistic men, who detested the times they lived, and who, with their florid writing styles, recast literature for the future. Both delved into the darkest recesses of the human mind, and sought purest evil in their writings, and most especially they dealt with madness. And, of course, both died penniless and unappreciated.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470604276410220159.post-49590899318303910262009-01-20T18:50:00.000-05:002009-01-20T18:50:00.000-05:00I loved Mr Poes work, my friends and I travelled a...I loved Mr Poes work, my friends and I travelled around Australia in a car and the collective works of Edgar went the rounds. Some are very funny.<BR/>I like writing sci-fi horror thrillers myself and have a novel called Doom Of The Shem. This novel is a science fiction story that uses a military theme to bring out a gritty futuristic war chronicle, it is easy to read. I have created a small mini environment and it grows on readers as the situation deepens. I think any person who likes science fiction writing and the whole alien species who clash will enjoy this book. It is an in depth view of war with many hand to tentacle fight scenes and various comical twists here and there through the plot which help to develop the characters and their personalities. doomoftheshem.blogspot.comL. Clarkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08076615478426449160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470604276410220159.post-4202425441313594362009-01-20T09:04:00.000-05:002009-01-20T09:04:00.000-05:00Thanks for the suggestion, Howard!Thanks for the suggestion, Howard!B-Solhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10717121313061173603noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470604276410220159.post-8559473016101793312009-01-20T04:34:00.000-05:002009-01-20T04:34:00.000-05:00I find the collection of works at The Edgar Allen ...I find the collection of works at <A HREF="http://www.eapoe.org/" REL="nofollow">The Edgar Allen Poe Society of Baltimore</A> to be the most browsable and the easiest to read online. And they make it easy to compare the various versions of the stories published in Poe's lifetime.<BR/><BR/>And they have some obscure favorites that aren't as widely anthologized, like one of my favorites, "<A HREF="http://www.eapoe.org/works/tales/aglodda.htm" REL="nofollow">The Angel of the Odd</A>."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com