Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe
Автор
 
Год
 
Страниц
 
66
ISBN
 
1113125195
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Биографии и мемуары. Разное

Описание:

EDGAR ALLAN POE I BY HANNS HEINZ EWERS Traawlated Irom the German by ADLE LEWISOHN NEW YORK B. V. HUEBSCH ICICJISVTI EDGAR ALLAN POE COPYRIGHT, lglB, BY B. TV. HUEESCR PESTE 1Y TRE FXITEb DTATEB OF AYEPICA TRANSLATORS IKTRODUCTION One of the rcasons for Hnnns Hcinz Ewers in- fluence upon German verse and prosc is his wonder- ful sense of the value of words, of their colors and sounds, which he shares with the masters of all times. His instinct leads him toward the strange, the unexpected. The actions in his books take place in the human soul-that land of dreams which unites our soul to thc world-soul. The conception of the Alrrtune or hlan- dragora, his most famous book, antedates Pytha- goras. It is a fablc of the plant that shrieks when plucked. Ewers combines this dory with the science of our times and creates a talc of a strange passion, with no intcnt to intoxicate but rather to explain. This book has affected not only the literature of Germany, but the Iiteraturc of France,...

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