--- Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Robin: Most of Poe has aged badly (prose as well as
> his insufferable
> poetry), but there are the odd pieces like "The Man
> of Crowds" that remain
> essential, and his one, very early, novel, A. Gordon
> Pym, is simply
> astonishing.
>
> Mark
K -- and "William Wilson" (the doppleganger theme,
which naturally appeals to a Scot). But the Man in
the Crowd was done better by Melville in Bartleby (and
the whole thing in Poe is Dostoevsky and water).
What else? Usher? Dear god, geeuz a break ...
<g>
A Prejudiced Rodent (who is still not officially back
here yet).
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