Edgar allan Poe(1809-1849) is the most popular of American authors,he had a short life of povery,anxiety ,and fantastic tragedy.The son of traveling actors,Poe was born in Boston,.poe’s works,which include fiction,legend,tales,poetry,and critical article,are directed toward universial human responses,thus the passing of time and ages can hardly change their values.Poe’s insists that the creation of the work of art requires the utmost concentration and unity,as well as the most scrupulous use of words.Many of Poe’s conception of American literature and its criticism,moreover,they have been exerting a great and enduring influence upon world literature,esoecially that of France and Europern symbolism,in their demand for the intellectual analysis and controlled perception of emotional consciousness. Poe is the first author who formalized the technique of the short story,in pursuit of the totality of effect through compression,immediacy,verisimilitude ,and developed a new fiction of psychological analysis.The typical Poe story is,in terms of its action,an allegory of dream-experience,since the action almost always occurs in imagination,the characters are principles of faculties of Poe’s divided naturein stead of traditional distinct personalities,the process of the action correspond to the successive states of a mind moving into sleep,and eventually the end of the action is no other than the end of the dream.His work,for example,To Helen,the beauty of traditional Greece and Normal culture by Helen.The Rawen,,and so on.。
