CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE 19TH CENTURY AMERICAN LITERARY THEORY
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE 19TH CENTURY AMERICAN LITERARY THEORY

RALPH WALDO EMERSON AND EDGAR ALLAN POE – COMPARATIVE APPROACH

Summary/Abstract: This papers illustrates two major contributions to the 19th Century American Literary theory, more precisely the role of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Edgar Allen Poe to the chief line of American poetics and short prose, studying comparatively the division of the world of mind, language, the concept of imagination, the poet as a maker or a namer, and the effect deliberately conceived, demonstrating the differences between the romantic and Edgar Allen Poe`s literary theories.

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