During what literary time period did Edgar Allen Poe write?

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During what literary time period did Edgar Allen Poe write? Please email me the answers.

-- Anonymous, November 02, 2003

Answers

The American Romantic Period.

-- Anonymous, November 03, 2003

Contemporary to Bryant, Longfellow, Emerson, Lowell. Reviewed Hawthorne's early work enthusiastically. Before Melville. Walt Whitman knew him from the copy room as a boy. In the thick of things just after the period of the British Romantics, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Moore and in praise of Tennyson, Dickens, Elizabbeth Barrett- whom he reviewed.

A good way to get a flavor of this interplay is to read Poe's own many articles at www.eapoe.org.

-- Anonymous, November 06, 2003


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