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>Poe is a bad poet, a poor critic, and a dreadful prose stylist in his celebrated tales...In translation, Poe inproves greatly, as French and German versions demonstrate [hence Tallis's praise]...Almost anyone can retell The fall of the house of usher more effectively than Poe does, because Poe's diction is uniquely abominable.

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