autiful woman. Poe declared that beauty was "the province of the poem..." (Norton, 716)
In the book The Critical Essay I found several letters from journals and newspapers that with beautiful words tried to describe Poe's style;
Mr Poe is familiar to us as a poet of considerably power. We remember the fine conception and the musical execution of his stanzas..." (The Critical Heritage, 184)
Poe's was totally devoted to language-making during his lifetime. He's passion and devotion was the detail and modification of the language. When he started to focus on prose it brought his devotion to a broader field of writing. His mission was to exemplify and to exalt "The Power of Words". His use of this phrase tells us about the supreme importance to him of language and in its creative aspects, language was not only a determinant of concept but was even of external reality. Poe wanted to refine, sharpen and, to a certain extent, to purify t
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