Poe in 1849
Edgar Allan Poe (né Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, author, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. He is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism and Gothic fiction in the United States, and of American literature.[1] Poe was one of the country's earliest practitioners of the short story, and is considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre, as well as a significant contributor to the emerging genre of science fiction.[2] He is the first well-known American writer to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career.[3]
Poe was born in Boston, the second child of actors David and Elizabeth "Eliza" Poe.[4] His father abandoned the family in 1810, and when his mother died the following year, Poe was taken in by John and Frances Allan of Richmond, Virginia. They never formally adopted him, but he was with them well into young adulthood. He attended the University of Virginia but left after a year due to lack of money. He quarreled with John Allan over the funds for his education, and his gambling debts. In 1827, having enlisted in the United States Army under an assumed name, he published his first collection, Tamerlane and Other Poems, credited only to "a Bostonian". Poe and Allan reached a temporary rapprochement after the death of Allan's wife in 1829. Poe later failed as an officer cadet at West Point, declared a firm wish to be a poet and writer, and parted ways with Allan.
Poe switched his focus to prose, and spent the next several years working for literary journals and periodicals, becoming known for his own style of literary criticism. His work forced him to move between several cities, including Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York City. In 1836, he married his 13-year-old cousin, Virginia Clemm, but she died of tuberculosis in 1847. In January 1845, he published his poem "The Raven" to instant success. He planned for years to produce his own journal The Penn, later renamed The Stylus. But before it began publishing, Poe died in Baltimore on October 7, 1849, aged 40, under mysterious circumstances. The cause of his death remains unknown, and has been variously attributed to many causes including disease, alcoholism, substance abuse, and suicide.[5]
Poe and his works influenced literature around the world, as well as specialized fields such as cosmology and cryptography. He and his work appear throughout popular culture in literature, music, films, and television. A number of his homes are dedicated museums. The Mystery Writers of America present an annual Edgar Award for distinguished work in the mystery genre.
I believe that Edgar Allan Poe (né Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was the first to create American literature!
As an East Asian, I think my respected seniors, Steve, and 
However, I believe that my thoughts and beliefs are correct!
Is Edgar Allan Poe a apocalypse prophet?
Edgar Allan Poe expresses the sensibility of medieval Europe hidden in America.
Illustration by Daniel Vierge of "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", 1870
"The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe published in Graham's Magazine in 1841. It has been described as the first modern detective story;[1][2] Poe referred to it as one of his "tales of ratiocination".[1]
C. Auguste Dupin is a man in Paris who solves the mystery of the brutal murder of two women. Numerous witnesses heard a suspect, though no one agrees on what language was spoken. At the murder scene, Dupin finds a hair that does not appear to be human.
As the first fictional detective, Poe's Dupin displays many traits which became literary conventions in subsequent fictional detectives, including Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot. Many later characters, for example, follow Poe's model of the brilliant detective, his personal friend who serves as narrator, and the final revelation being presented before the reasoning that leads up to it. Dupin himself reappears in "The Mystery of Marie Rogêt" and "The Purloined Letter".
The murder case in "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is Edgar Allan Poe's greatest masterpiece that spread his fame throughout Europe and East Asia!
In the United States where Edgar Allan Poe lived, enlightenment and evangelical optimism were popular, so Poe's occult and tragic works were ignored.
As ardent Protestants, Steve and Joseph probably don't like Poe's occult works!
Perhaps they do not enjoy Poe's works because they believe that America is the most perfect utopia that God has ever created!
However, Europeans, Japanese, and Koreans were enthusiastic about Poe's works!
To this day, Poe's works continue to gain popularity in Japan and Korea, resulting in imitations!
While reading “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” I felt that Poe was a genius ahead of his time!
"The Murders in the Rue Morgue" was the world's first mystery novel and featured Auguste Dupin, Poe's most famous character.
In this work, Poe expresses with surprising vividness and detail the various emotions and thoughts of humans facing a mysterious case that seems completely impossible to solve!
Two women were brutally murdered inside an apartment where the criminal could not enter from the outside.
The witnesses, who were foreigners of various nationalities, could not understand the criminal's voice at all and only remembered a few words of French.
Dupin solved the crime situation that humans could not understand with his amazing genius reasoning ability!😲
The image of Dupin solving the secret room incident is so famous that even Japanese and Korean writers imitate it to this day!
Charles Baudelaire, 1864.
In 1847 Baudelaire had discovered the work of Edgar Allan Poe. Overwhelmed by what he saw as the almost preternatural similarities between the American writer’s thought and temperament and his own, he embarked upon the task of translation that was to provide him with his most regular occupation and income for the rest of his life. His translation of Poe’s Mesmeric Revelation appeared as early as July 1848, and thereafter translations appeared regularly in reviews before being collected in book form in Histoires extraordinaires (1856; “Extraordinary Tales”) and Nouvelles Histoires extraordinaires (1857; “New Extraordinary Tales”), each preceded by an important critical introduction by Baudelaire. These were followed by Les Aventures d’Arthur Gordon Pym (1857), Eurêka (1864), and Histoires grotesques et sérieuses (1865; “Grotesque and Serious Tales”). As translations these works are, at their best, classics of French prose, and Poe’s example gave Baudelaire greater confidence in his own aesthetic theories and ideals of poetry. Baudelaire also began studying the work of the conservative theorist Joseph de Maistre, who, together with Poe, impelled his thought in an increasingly antinaturalist and antihumanist direction. From the mid-1850s Baudelaire would regard himself as a Roman Catholic, though his obsession with original sin and the Devil remained unaccompanied by faith in God’s forgiveness and love, and his Christology was impoverished to the point of nonexistence.
Charles Baudelaire discovered Poe's works and became so enthusiastic that he began introducing them to European literary circles.
At the time, in Europe, the Enlightenment was declining and Romanticism was developing, so Poe's occult and mystical works were explosively popular.
I thought Europeans were fascinated by Poe's mystery novels that scientifically analyzed mysticism and occult phenomena!
Unlike the religious practices of fanatical Christians in the United States, who indulge in miracles and illusions from God, Europeans placed more emphasis on scientific observation and analysis.
Émile Gaboriau
Émile Gaboriau (9 November 1832 – 28 September 1873) was a French writer, novelist, journalist, and a pioneer of detective fiction.
Gaboriau's novel L'Affaire Lerouge is widely considered as the first detective story in France. Its structure is characterized as a flashback into the past that serves to inform a present mystery.[4] Influenced by Baudelaire's translations of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe,[5] this work introduced an amateur detective and a young police officer named Monsieur Lecoq, who was the hero in three of Gaboriau's later detective novels. The character of Lecoq was based on a real-life thief turned police officer, Eugène François Vidocq (1775–1857), whose own memoirs, Les Vrais Mémoires de Vidocq, mixed fiction and fact. It may also have been influenced by the villainous Monsieur Lecoq, one of the main protagonists of Féval's Les Habits Noirs book series. Gaboriau was likely influenced also by the philosophy of positivism, promoted by Auguste Comte, which promoted the idea that science could answer all questions. Gaboriau's investigators rely heavily on newly developing scientific methodologies in their pursuit of criminals rather than simply on interrogation and eyewitnesses.[5]
L'Affaire Lerouge was published as a series in the daily Le Soleil and at once made his reputation.[6] Its recounting of a reclusive woman who is murdered for the secret she hides gained for Gaboriau a huge following.[7] But when Arthur Conan Doyle created Sherlock Holmes, Monsieur Lecoq's international fame declined. The story was produced on the stage in 1872. A long series of novels dealing with the annals of the police court followed, and proved very popular.[3] Gaboriau died in Paris of pulmonary apoplexy.
Gaboriau's books were generally well received. About The Mystery of the Orcival, Harper's wrote in 1872: "Of its class of romance—French sensational—this is a remarkable and unique specimen".[8] A film version of Le Dossier n° 113 (File No. 113) was released in 1932.[9]
In A Study in Scarlet, Arthur Conan Doyle has Watson ask Sherlock Holmes what he thinks of Gaboriau's work. Holmes disparages Lecoq as "a miserable bungler".
Poe's mystery literature gained great resonance and popularity in France, and French people began to imitate his works.
Émile Gaboriau wrote the first mystery novel featuring police officer Monsieur Lecoq.
However, unlike Poe, Émile Gaboriau was not a genius.
So, The policeman Monsieur Lecoq, created by Émile Gaboriau, was soon forgotten because he was not very attractive.
The French were fascinated by Poe's genius, and were the first to spread his works to Europe and imitate them, but the results were not successful.
Arthur Conan Doyle in June 1914
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle KStJ, DL (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer and physician. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Holmes and Dr. Watson. The Sherlock Holmes stories are milestones in the field of crime fiction.
Doyle was a prolific writer; other than Holmes stories, his works include fantasy and science fiction stories about Professor Challenger, and humorous stories about the Napoleonic soldier Brigadier Gerard, as well as plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction, and historical novels. One of Doyle's early short stories, "J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement" (1884), helped to popularise the mystery of the Mary Celeste.
Although Britain adopted Poe's literature later than France, it developed a very dazzling mystery literature.
Sherlock Holmes in a 1904 illustration by Sidney Paget
Sherlock Holmes (/ˈʃɜːrlɒk ˈhoʊmz/) is a fictional detective created by British author Arthur Conan Doyle. Referring to himself as a "consulting detective" in the stories, Holmes is known for his proficiency with observation, deduction, forensic science and logical reasoning that borders on the fantastic, which he employs when investigating cases for a wide variety of clients, including Scotland Yard.
First appearing in print in 1887's A Study in Scarlet, the character's popularity became widespread with the first series of short stories in The Strand Magazine, beginning with "A Scandal in Bohemia" in 1891; additional tales appeared from then until 1927, eventually totalling four novels and 56 short stories. All but one[a] are set in the Victorian or Edwardian eras, between about 1880 and 1914. Most are narrated by the character of Holmes's friend and biographer Dr. John H. Watson, who usually accompanies Holmes during his investigations and often shares quarters with him at the address of 221B Baker Street, London, where many of the stories begin.
Though not the first fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes is arguably the best known.[1] By the 1990s, there were already over 25,000 stage adaptations, films, television productions and publications featuring the detective,[2] and Guinness World Records lists him as the most portrayed human literary character in film and television history.[3] Holmes's popularity and fame are such that many have believed him to be not a fictional character but a real individual;[4][5][6] numerous literary and fan societies have been founded on this pretence. Avid readers of the Holmes stories helped create the modern practice of fandom.[7] The character and stories have had a profound and lasting effect on mystery writing and popular culture as a whole, with the original tales as well as thousands written by authors other than Conan Doyle being adapted into stage and radio plays, television, films, video games, and other media for over one hundred years.
Arthur Conan Doyle created the world's most famous character, Sherlock Holmes.
He achieved world fame and fortune by creating Sherlock Holmes, a further development of Poe's first detective character, Dufin.
Unlike Poe's short mystery novels, Arthur Conan Doyle used the science, scholarship, philosophy, and psychology created by European civilization to complete his mystery novels into literature.
The fact that Europeans accepted the mystery novel first created by the American Poe and completed mystery literature proved that American literature had become equal to European literature.
I believe that after America became independent, American literature was at the level of imitating European literature, but as Poe's literature became world famous, American literature became equal to European literature! 😃
I wonder how Steve and the
Edogawa Ranpo
Tarō Hirai (平井 太郎, Hirai Tarō, October 21, 1894 – July 28, 1965), better known by the pen name Edogawa Ranpo (江戸川 乱歩)[a] was a Japanese author and critic who played a major role in the development of Japanese mystery and thriller fiction. Many of his novels involve the detective hero Kogoro Akechi, who in later books was the leader of a group of boy detectives known as the "Boy Detectives Club" (少年探偵団, Shōnen tantei dan).
Ranpo was an admirer of Western mystery writers, and especially of Edgar Allan Poe. His pen name is a rendering of Poe's name.[2] Other authors who were special influences on him were Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, whom he attempted to translate into Japanese during his days as a student at Waseda University, and the Japanese mystery writer Ruikō Kuroiwa.
Even in Japan, the popularity of Edgar Allan Poe remains great to this day.
Tarō Hirai (平井 太郎, Hirai Tarō, October 21, 1894 – July 28, 1965), considered the father of Japanese mystery literature, took the pen name Edogawa Ranpo (江戸川 乱歩) in imitation of Edgar Allan Poe's name.
He created Kogoro Akechi (明智 小五郎, Akechi Kogorō)
by imitating the famous detective Dupin.
I'm curious how the genius
The Japanese and Koreans called Poe a cursed great genius!