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• 1809

• first book of poetry in 1827

• mournful and macabre

• character in one of his stories or poems: a pale, sorrowful,

• dark, misty landscape

• Poe's work is a product of an intricate web of life experiences

• prestigious University of Virginia in 1825

• must create a "unity of effect

• "In poetry, this single effect must arouse the reader's sense of beauty, an ideal that Poe closely associated with sadness, strangeness, and loss; in prose, the effect should be one revelatory of some truth, as in . . . works evoking 'terror, or passion, or horror.'"4