“Peering into the depths of that darkness, I stood there for a long time wondering, fearing,” (Kinsella 327). The Raven was one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous works. Poe (1809-1849) was closely associated with the American Romanticism movement, which branched into the Gothic, whose story is set in bleak or remote places, the plot involves macabre or violent incidents, the characters are psychological and/or physical torments and a supernatural or otherworldly element often present (Kinsella 307). Poe's upbringing, filled with illness, loss, and poverty, influenced the mind of one of the world's greatest poets. Edgar Allan Poe was alive during the tuberculosis epidemic. This epidemic had a great effect on Poe. His mother Elizabeth Poe, his brother William Poe, Frances Allan his stepfather and his wife Virginia Clemm all died of tuberculosis. The effect of losing the important women in his life leads to one of Poe's themes of young women dying tragically (Szumski 15). Poe is widely recognized as the inventor of the detective novel, and his psychological thrillers have been imitated by dozens of modern writers (Kinsella 306). This is important because Poe is the reason the world has thriller stories and poems today. Poe romanticized the literary world by linking the natural feeling of anxiety to becoming a destructive part of a person's personality (Kinsella 307). This way the reader could connect with the characters' anxiety. “Poe's Raven” by Thomas Ollive Mabbott. This criticism argues that Poe was interested and disturbed by the question of the relationship between art and the world, subjective and scientific knowledge, and the possibility of knowledge and certainty. It is also stated that in the work The Crow the response “nev...... middle of paper ......e province of the poem” (Szumski 139). Poe rejected the world of sense and meaning. What will be the next work or style that will challenge the literary world? Works Cited Citations Cole, Diane. “Investigate the stories of Edgar Allan Poe. (Cover article).” US News and World Report145.14 (2008): 53 MAS Ultra-School Edition. Network. 08 May 2014. Giammarco, Erica. "Edgar Allan Poe: A Psychological Profile." Personality and Individual Differences 54.1 (2013): 3-6. Premier of academic research. Web May 8, 2014. Kinsella, Kate. Prentice Hall Literature. Timeless voices, timeless themes. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2005. Print.Poe, Edgar Allan. "The raven." Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe. Ed. Thomas Ollive Mabbott. Vol 1: Poems. Cambridge: The Belknap P of Harvard UP, 1969. 364-69.Szumski, Bonnie. Edgar Allan Poe. Greenhaven Press, Inc. San Diego, CA 1998.