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Good evening /lit/. /tg/ dweller here. I recently found my way into some of the works of Edgar Allan Poe and it is quite to my liking. I've yet to read anything outside of his poetry however which is why I'm here. I've heard he was a master horror writer. What I want to know is; How easy is it to follow? I've had troubles in the past following story and the actions of characters, and the "olde English" language could only make it harder to follow. So I came here for your judgement first.

tl;dr. How complex is Edgar Alan poe's story and writing style, and how easy is it to follow?

>> No.657831

"Enthusiasm for Poe is the mark of a decidedly primitive stage of reflection."

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657838

>Edgar Allen Poe
>olde English

>> No.657845

>>657838

Okay I'll admit I dont exactly have a large grasp of what I'm talking about. I merely lacked a better way to express all the "Thous" and "Thines he uses, I meant it would make it harder to read non-standard english than it would be to read standard english, the variety of english I am most "fluent" in.

>> No.657862

>>657845
No it wouldn't, you dribbling retard. The lexeme "thou" is the same as the lexeme "you", except it refers to a singular person with whom the speaker is familiar or who is the speaker's age or younger. Sometimes used to insult, as if the recipient of the insult is not worthy of the formal address, "you".

>> No.657866

>>657831
derpity derp

On topic: I don't think you'd have a problem OP, they aren't extraordinarily hard to read at least.

>> No.657870

>>657862
Cool rage bro

>> No.657874

>>657799

Everyone reads poe at the same time of their life:

12-15

I think if almost everyone does that at that age, you might be okay reading it at whatever age you are now

>> No.657877

>>657831
you stupid fuck

I suppose Baudelaire, Valery, and Mallarme

are all primitive stages of reflection too?

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>>657862

>> No.657885

>>657870
I wasn't raging, thou cretinous sack, or else I would have addressed OP with the proper pronoun to express it.

>> No.657888

/lit/, don't ever change

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657894

>>657874
>derp

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657899

>>657877
>>657866

Problem?

Also

>implying Baudelaire, Valery, and Mallarme are anything like Poe

>> No.657922

>>657899
Nah bro, your weak trolling is hardly a problem.

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657936

>This thread

>> No.657944

>>implying that they didn't all translate Poe into French and write essays about him

>> No.657951

>>657944

Who the hell implyed that? How is that even relevant to anything going on here?

>> No.657957

>>657951
They obviously appreciated Poe to dedicate so much time to working with his words. Are they all stuck in primitive stages of reflection?

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>>657957

Decidedly.

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657987

>>657964
Henry James is one of my favorite authors

but I think the World War 1 is a pretty good refutation of him and that whole system

>> "If any question why we died/ Tell them, because our fathers lied."

>> No.657995

>>657987
I like James, too...but I still laugh loudly at Wilde's quip that James "wrote fiction like it was a painful duty."

>> No.658007

It's not massively complex but interesting and, how to put it, an...experiment? An experiment in writing and exploration of his context and themes.

Of two of my favourites, the Casque of Amontillado explores a fascination with immurement.
The Tell-Tale heart is fantastic as well.
Poe was brilliant and accomplished, but by no means perfect. Just consider his time.