埃德加·爱伦·坡是美国文学史上一位颇有影响的作家,同时也是最受争议的美国作家之一,被誉为西方颓废文学的鼻祖、唯美主义文学先驱、变态心理的探索家及美国侦探小说的开拓者,其影响之大,超过了除马克·吐温之外的其他任何美国作家。坡的作品常常以丰富的想象、新颖的手法及细致入微的心理刻画使读者自始至终都处于一种恐怖、疑惧、怪异的氛围里,发人深省且令人回味无穷。 Edgar Allan Poe is an influential writer in the history of American literature and one of the most controversial American writers. He is regarded as the originator of western decadent literature, pioneer of aestheticism literature, and psychopathic explorer And the pioneers of American detective novels, have far more impact than any other American writer except Mark Twain. Poetry often with rich imagination, novel techniques and meticulous psychological portrayal of the reader from beginning to end in a terrorist, suspicious, weird atmosphere, thought-provoking and memorable.