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I WAS sick, sick unto death,... Edgar Allen Poe was best known to his own generation as an editor and critic; his poems and short stories dominated only a small audience. But to some degree in his poems, and to an impressive point in his tales, he lead the way in opening up areas of human experience for artistic treatment at which his contemporaries only veiled. His vision emphasizes that reality for the human being is essentially profound, ambiguous to surface reality, and extremely absurd in character. Two generations later he was hailed by the symbolist movement as the prophet of the modern sensibility. One of Poe’s most radiant works of gloomy and dreary