Throughout Poe's career, he was involved in numerous jobs. Although he held jobs ranging from the military to the editor of prestigous magazines, Poe's fame remains attributed due to his brilliance in writing poems. His unique style of writing also contributed to his success and intrigued many people of his time. George Washington Peck, a United States representative states "that Poe will be considered as he is now, a poet of singular genius. There can be no question." Poe has gained a lot of credit because of his ingenuity. He expresses many different themes through his writing that many poets of his time never clearly touched on. "To some extent in his poems, and to an expressive degree in his tales, he pioneered in opening up areas of human experience for artistic treatment at which his contemporaries only hinted. His vision asserts that reality for the human being is essentially, subterranean, contradictory to surface reality, and profoundly irrational in character" (Quinn). Edgar Allan Poe is an essential part to literature, and provides a great deal of insight to topics never expressed before hand.
Works Cited:
Quinn, Arthur H. Encyclopedia of World Biography. 2nd ed Detriot, MI; Thomson/Gale, 2007. Print.
McArthur, Debra. "Poe's Influence." A students guide to Edgar Allan Poe. Berkeley Heights, NJ; Enslow, 2006. 131, Print.
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