文档介绍：The Black Cat
Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe(1809-1849)
Edgar Allan Poe was an great American poet, editor and literary critic. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre. Poe was one of the earliest American story writer and is considered the inventor of the detective-fiction genre. Poe and his works influenced literature all over the world.
Personal life
(1) His childhood was a miserable one. He lost both of his parents when he was very young and then he was adopted by a wealthy merchant: John Allan. Poe’s relation with the Allans was unhappy.
(2) He entered University of Virginia and then West Point but did not finish.
(3) He worked as editor and writer most of his life and he was always poor.
(4) At 27 he married his thirteen-year-old cousin, whose death in 1847 left him inconsolable.
(5) On October 7, 1849, at age 40, Poe died in Baltimore
Significances
father of modern short story
father of detective story
father of psychoanalytic criticism
Major Works
Poery
1 The Raven (1844) 《乌鸦》
2 Annabel Lee 《安娜贝尔丽》
3 The Sleeper 《睡美人》
4 A Dream Within a Dream 《梦中梦》
5 Israfel 《伊斯拉菲尔》
6 The Bells 《钟》
7 – To Science 《十四行诗--致科学》
8 To Helen 《献给海伦》
9 The City in the Sea 《海中的城市》
Short Stories
1 MS. Found in a Bottle (1833) 《瓶中手稿》
2 Tales of the Grotesque and the Arabesque (1839) 《荒诞奇异的故事》
3 The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841) 《毛格街血案》
4 The Fall of the House of Usher 《厄舍古屋的倒塌》
5 The Cask of Amontillado 《一桶白葡萄酒》
6 Ligeia 《丽姬娅》
The Purloined Letter 《窃信案》
8 The Man of the Crowd 《人群中的人》
9 The Tell-Tale Heart 《泄密的心》
10 William Wilson 《》
11 Black Cat 《黑猫》
12 The Imp of the Perverse 《变态的小鬼》
13 The Gold Bug 《金甲虫》
14 The Mystery of Marie Roger 《》
15 The Masque of the Red Death 《红色死亡的化妆舞会》
Features of his works
a. Gothic elements (terror and romance)
b. Deep analysis of human psychology (He noticed subconscious of human mind nearly one hundred year before Freud. ) (He was also the first American author who took neurotic characters as main characters i