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“One half of the pleasure experienced at a theatre arises from the spectator's sympathy with the rest of the audience, and, especially from his belief in their sympathy with him.”

Quote by Edgar Allan Poe

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)

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Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)

The Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated) is a meticulously curated compilation of Poe's extensive literary output. It features his most renowned works such as 'The Raven,' 'The Tell-Tale Heart,' and 'The Fall of the House of Usher,' alongside lesser-known pieces. Each work is accompanied by illustrations that enhance the reader's experience. This collection is a must-have for fans of Poe's dark and mysterious narratives, as well as for those interested in the history of American literature. more

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Edgar Allan Poe

American author, poet, editor, and literary critic. Known for his short stories and poetry, particularly his works of horror and mystery. His most famous works include 'The Black Cat', 'The Raven', and 'Annabel Lee'. more

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“There might be a class of beings, human once, but now to humanity invisible, for whose scrutiny, and for whose refined appreciation of the beautiful, more especially than for our own, had been set in order by God the great landscape-garden of the whole earth.”

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Book:The Landscape Garden

Source: The Landscape Garden

“In the tale proper--where there is no space for development of character or for great profusion and variety of incident--mere construction is, of course, far more imperatively demanded than in the novel.”

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Book:Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)

“If in many of my productions terror has been the thesis, I maintain that terror is not of Germany, but of the soul.”

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Book:Poetry and Tales

Source: Poetry and Tales

“In the one instance, the dreamerloses sight of this object in a wilderness of deductions and suggestionsuntilhe finds the incitamentum, or first cause of his musings,... forgotten. In my case, the primary object was invariably frivolous, although assuming, through the medium of my distempered vision, a refracted and unreal importance.”

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Author:Edgar Allan Poe

“To see distinctly the machinery--the wheels and pinions--of any work of Art is, unquestionably, of itself, a pleasure, but one which we are able to enjoy only just in proportion as we do not enjoy the legitimate effect designed by the artist.”

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Book:Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)

“The usual derivation of the word Metaphysics is not to be sustainedthe science is supposed to take its name from its superiority to physics. The truth is, that Aristotle's treatise on Morals is next in succession to his Book of Physics.”

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Author:Edgar Allan Poe

“The want of an international Copy-Right Law, by rendering it nearly impossible to obtain anything from the booksellers in the wayof remuneration for literary labor, has had the effect of forcing many of our very best writers into the service of the Magazines and Reviews.”

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Book:Edgar Allan Poe's Annotated Short Stories

Source: Edgar Allan Poe's Annotated Short Stories

“The unity of effect or impression is a point of the greatest importance. It is clear, moreover, that this unity cannot be thoroughly preserved in productions whose perusal cannot be completed at one sitting.”

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Book:Great Short Works of Edgar Allan Poe

Source: Great Short Works of Edgar Allan Poe

“The history of all Magazines shows plainly that those which have attained celebrity were indebted for it to articles similar in natureto Berenice--although, I grant you, far superior in style and execution. I say similar in nature. You ask me in what does this nature consist? In the ludicrous heightened into the grotesque: the fearful coloured into the horrible: the witty exaggerated into the burlesque: the singular wrought out into the strange and mystical.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)

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