>Had Baudelaire as a stan who spent 15 years translating his works> Motherfucking Dostoevesky wrote a foreward for him and published some of his tales>Mallarme was a fanboy and also translated him>Pessoa translated him>Cortazor spent 2 years translating 70 of his short stories>Akugatawa was a fan and attempted to translate his stories>Tanizaki translated domain of arnheim and Golden Death was based on one of Poe's short stories>Verne wrote a sequel to Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym>Lovecraft called him the "God of Fiction">Lu Xun had his brother translate Poe's stories >George Bernard Shaw wrote about him and basically said he was too good for his time or contemporaries>Arno Schmidt translated his stories and Bottoms Dream is basically about Poe>Balmont translated him>Borges translated him (though he translated everyone)>""Poe was ill. He was a poor devil who had no defenses against the world. So he fled into drunkenness. Imagination only served him as a crutch. He wrote tales of mystery to make himself at home in the world. That's perfectly natural. Imagination has fewer pitfalls than reality does.” -Kafka on PoeThere's more I'm missing but it's time we admit this man is the GOAT and America's greatest writer. Name one other author that had someone of Baudelaire's reputation stanning over him that wasn't also a friend, had nothing to gain from doing this, and they weren't even from the same country. This is a grown man stanning anotehr grown man that was his contemporary.
>appeal to authority
I mean he’s okay, fun I suppose, Hölderlin blows him away though as a poet.
>>25124843Hölderlin was a worse Rimbaud with Werther pretensions.
>>25124046Ligotti(the greatest living horror author btw) is also a fanboy of Poe
>>25124046Absolute Goat
>>25124862Stephen King is still alive so no.
>>25124046>GOATWe don't talk like that here.
>>25124935HAHAHAHAHAHA Also a novelist can't be a great horror writer. Short story is the primary form of horror.
>>25124046You forgot to add Nabokov loved him and the Quilty/ Humbert doppleganger plot is a spiritual remake of William Wilson.
>>25124943Actually it's videogames
>>25124046>it's time we admit this man is the GOAT and America's greatest writerI love American literature and don't like Poe at all; I see more talented writers like WC Willams gush over his brilliance without even mentioning e.g. Washington Irving and it makes me a little mad to be desu. Poe's writing is distinct but I don't understand why it's so prized among people who have read widely.Pic unrelated except that it's dark American short story writing I actually enjoy.
>>25124861>worse Rimbaudyou sound like you haven't even read Hölderlin
Great writers admire earnest writers because they feel they themselves are compromised by status seeking. The earnest writer, the Poe and Stevenson and Wells, is a kind of sinless ideal of the writing life.
brazilian greatest authour translated him as well
Mid ahh unc. Ppl were just amazed bcuz he was the only sci-fi adjacent thng on the market but now we have billions of sci books, TV shows, animes, etc. so he’s not that special
>>25124046I sustain, Poe is the greatest writer in the English language, hell I'd even say he's the only good writer in said language.
>>25125670Bro really said the only good writer in said language
>>25125668>he was the only sci-fi adjacent thng on the marketPoe became popular and admired long after his death and continues to be a big influence on modern writers. Masses weren't flocking to buy his books because he was the "closes thing to modern sci-fi/fantasy" it was because he was genuinely ahead of his time.
>>25125672Si. Angloparlantes (salvo muy pocas excepciones) solo son capacez de escribir "capeshit."
Blake wipes the floor with him (and all other poets including Shakespeare and Milton) however.
>>25125679angloparlantes BTFO'd
>>25125679And these exceptions are?
>>25124046>Baudelaire>Mallarme>Balmont>KafkaBrilliant>BorgesDecent>the restNot so much
>>25124840Appeal to authority is only a fallacy of they're not an authority to you.If they're an authority in your eyes or SHOULD be an authority then appealing to them is literally what the word 'authority' means you should do, "those you appeal to".
>>25125715Oh and Pessoa, he’s decent too
>>25125670Which of his works best display this excellence, Anon? I belittled Poe ITT but am open to giving him another shot.
>>25124046You forgot the Japanese master of thrillers Edogawa Ranpo who was such a fanboy he literally took his name. Can't understand why, though. I have heard that Mallarmé's translation of The Raven was considered by many superior to the original.
>>25124046He is definitely America’s greatest writer, and the most influential too. You can trace many modern genres of fiction to him
>>25125679Shut the fuck up pretentious faggot. Fantasy is the greatest genre to ever exist and it basically elevates English as a language.>t. ESL
>>25125717If someone is an authority on wine and they tell me I am wrong if I consider a certain wine less palpable than another, what am I to say?
>>25126388>I have heard that Mallarmé's translation of The Raven was considered by many superior to the original.I remember another anon in another thread lamenting how English seems to have the least interesting literary figures as translators. I can't think of a writer/poet translating the work of a contemporary work into English the same way you have French authors/poets translating English works.
Usher was named after one of his stories
>>25124046>he was found dead in another man's clothes
>The most "popular," the most "successful" writers among us, (for a brief period, at least,) are, ninety-nine times out of a hundred, persons of mere address, perseverance, effrontery — in a word, busy-bodies, toadies, quacks. These people easily succeed in boring editors (whose attention is too often entirely engrossed by politics or other "business" matter) into the admission of favourable notices written or caused to be written by interested parties — or, at least, into the admission of some notice where, under ordinary circumstances, no notice would be given at all. In this way ephemeral "reputations" are manufactured which, for the most part, serve all the purposes designed — that is to say, the putting money into the purse of the quack and the quack's publisher; for there never was a quack who could be brought to comprehend the value of mere fame. >Now, men of genius will not resort to these manœuvres, because genius involves in its very essence a scorn of chicanery; and thus for a time the quacks always get the advantage of them, both in respect to pecuniary profit and what appears to be public esteem.Kneel.
>>25126540mofo writes like emily dickinson
>>25126540>>for there never was a quack who could be brought to comprehend the value of mere fame.basèd
>>25124046>‘My son’ — said he — ‘what is the chief end of your existence?’>‘Father’ — I said — ‘it is the study of Nosology.’>‘And what, Thomas’ — he continued — ‘is Nosology?’>‘Sir’ — I replied — ‘it is the Science of Noses.’>‘And can you tell me’ — he asked — ‘what is the meaning of a nose?’>‘A nose, my father’ — said I — ‘has been variously defined, by about a thousand different authors. It is now noon, or thereabouts. We shall therefore have time enough to get through with them all by midnight. To commence: — The nose, according to Bartholinus, is that protuberance, that bump, that excrescence, that ———’>‘That will do, Thomas’ — said my father. ‘I am positively thunderstruck at the extent of your information — I am, upon my soul. Come here! (and he took me by the arm.) Your education may be considered as finished, and it is high time you should scuffle for yourself — so — so — so (here he kicked me down stairs and out of the door,) so get out of my house, and God bless you!’>As I felt within me the divine afflatus, I considered this accident rather fortunate than otherwise, and determined to follow my nose. So I gave it a pull or two, and wrote a pamphlet on Nosology. All Fum-Fudge was in an uproar.
>>25124046Fairly certain the "GOATS" of American literature are usually considered to be Twain, Poe, or Hemingway
>>25126628Putting Twain and Hemingway in the same group as Poe is a joke.>In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the river and the plain to the mountains. In the bed of the river there were pebbles and boulders, dry and white in the sun, and the water was clear and swiftly moving and blue in the channels. Troops went by the house and down the road and the dust they raised powdered the leaves of the trees. The trunks of the trees too were dusty and the leaves fell early that year and we saw the troops marching along the road and the dust rising and leaves, stirred by the breeze, falling and the soldiers marching and afterward the road bare and white except for the leaves.>The poor unfortunate had starved to death. In one place, near at hand, a stalagmite had been slowly growing up from the ground for ages, builded by the water-drip from a stalactite overhead. The captive had broken off the stalagmite, and upon the stump had placed a stone, wherein he had scooped a shallow hollow to catch the precious drop that fell once in every three minutes with the dreary regularity of a clock-tick—a dessertspoonful once in four and twenty hours. That drop was falling when the Pyramids were new; when Troy fell; when the foundations of Rome were laid; when Christ was crucified; when the Conqueror created the British empire; when Columbus sailed; when the massacre at Lexington was “news.” It is falling now; it will still be falling when all these things shall have sunk down the afternoon of history, and the twilight of tradition, and been swallowed up in the thick night of oblivion. Has everything a purpose and a mission? Did this drop fall patiently during five thousand years to be ready for this flitting human insect’s need? and has it another important object to accomplish ten thousand years to come? No matter. It is many and many a year since the hapless half-breed scooped out the stone to catch the priceless drops, but to this day the tourist stares longest at that pathetic stone and that slow-dropping water when he comes to see the wonders of McDougal’s cave. Injun Joe’s cup stands first in the list of the cavern’s marvels; even “Aladdin’s Palace” cannot rival it.
>>25126658Which of the three excerpts is supposed to be the superior one?
>>25126658Maybe put some context for all us retards next time. I had to Google this shit, son!The pic posted: Poe1st excerpt: Hemingway (Although I recognized that was Hemingway, obviously his most famous passage ever) 2nd excerpt: Twain
>>25126699The one that's written best, of course.
>>25126736So the Assignation?
I forgot I do have something in common with PoeI went to the University of Virginia He was there for like a semesterAnd in the evenings, if you walk around The Lawn, tourists always ask which room he lived inEventually I just started making up rooms
