Is Edgar Allen Poe a hack fraud? If so, why?
what about you give us your goddamn opinion before starting the thread OP?
>>8270965
I like his prose tbqh. he's a terrible poet, though (except Israfel.)
>>8270969
he asked the begged-est question I've ever seen, so he basically did.
>>8270965
He's a minor writer who fascinates a lot of people because of his tragic meme life. Also the USA is starved for artists so they'll take anyone they can claim.
He is not a hack but the unity of his vision basically amounts to nothing more than fetishizing dead women. This is a good and noble subject about which to write but in the end it's not a higher calling.
Also
>inb4 "macabre"
>>8271011
>"starved"
>Faulkner
>Melville
>Twain
>James
>Emerson
>Whitman
>Fitzgerald
you a dumb mook
>>8271033
>Faulkner
corncobby chronicles
>Melville
dry whaling treatise
>Twain
racist aw shucks knee-slapper
>James
mediocre novelist who fled to Europe as fast as possible
>Emerson
essayist....artist.... pick one.
>Whitman
literally wrote poetry that doesn't even rhyme
>Fitzgerald
lol
>>8271051
5/10 for making me giggle a little
>>8271011
>"starved for artists"
>Dominated the 20th C art scene
>Dominated pomo lit scene
>Invented pretty much every popular music genre
>Black music
>le meme DFW
>le submeme Franzen
>le supmeme Pynchon
>all the expat Parisians
>Welles, Lynch, Hitchcock, Allen, Scorsese, Coppola, Kubrick, Altman, Ashby, PTA
>>8271057
>baiting
What's your favourite Poe story, friends?
>>8271189
Masque of the Red Death probably
All that imagery and symbolism
>>8271051
8/10
Temporary trigger until Whitman criticism
>>8270965
No but that toad is CUTE.
>>8271189
Cask
>>8271011
I seriously read it as "starved for autists"
I've been delving too deep.
