To what school of poetry does Poe belong(i.e. romanticism or vorticism)?

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To what school of poetry does Poe belong(i.e. romanticism or vorticism)?

-- Anonymous, December 07, 2002

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Technically vorticism is a much later movement, about 1914. Only Usher seems toi have those same abstractionist tendencies. In all else Poe was a Romantic predominantly, a rationalist or enthusiast for science a strong second, at least as far as his writings were concerned.

-- Anonymous, December 08, 2002

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