[HN Gopher] Edgar Allan Poe's America ___________________________________________________________________ Edgar Allan Poe's America Author : benbreen Score : 35 points Date : 2023-10-21 17:03 UTC (1 days ago) (HTM) web link (www.bunkhistory.org) (TXT) w3m dump (www.bunkhistory.org) | 11thEarlOfMar wrote: | If you're a Poe fan, be sure to check out Tales of Mystery and | Imagination by Alan Parsons Project: | | https://open.spotify.com/album/1Z4oBiD0q8rTwWIYrDwsys | niles wrote: | And Fall of the House of Usher on Netflix | osullish wrote: | I started this last night and quickly lashed through 2 | episodes - really enjoying it. Very it's got a good | Succession horror vibe to it. | devjab wrote: | I had dismissed it based on its trailer but maybe that was | too rash. I'll definitely give it a chance based on your | recommend here. Thanks! | alfanick wrote: | I was lately disappointed with quality of movies/shows on NF. | But The Fall off the House of Usher was decently good, | especially if you know Poe's stories/poetry. Highly | recommended, nice classic horror with modern twist. | nomilk wrote: | Seems disproportionately many writers of the 19th and 20th | century lived tough (and often short) lives, or at least endured | hardship of some kind e.g. Wilde, Orwell, Poe. Wonder if it's | true of writers generally? | ghaff wrote: | Many artists in general were probably not very successful | and/or otherwise had a lot of hardships in their lifetimes. | Some of them became more recognized later. They're the ones | you've heard of. | TulliusCicero wrote: | Suffering can produce some awesome art. | | Sometimes I wonder if part of the reason for the US having far | more success in exporting media worldwide compared to (Western) | Europe is the relatively greater amount of suffering caused by | libertarian-ish capitalism and oppression of minorities. | Certainly it's hard to see American hip hop being the same kind | of thing -- and thus achieving the same kind of sales -- | without those two factors. | waveBidder wrote: | I'd bet more on English being the lingua franca, and the | sheer size of the States. | taeric wrote: | Expand the thought to general lives, and it is probably the | same? Many lives were tough. In ways that we can and, in my | opinion, should prevent. | Exoristos wrote: | Like being beaten to death if you won't vote for the | Democratic Party? | jszymborski wrote: | Interesting, I always associated Poe with Baltimore. | paganel wrote: | Poe was very much loved here in Eastern Europe. I know he was | loved in Romania, from where I'm from, my dad had a couple of his | translated volumes in our library, in fact _The Narrative of | Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket_ is one of the first books I 've | read as a kid (the title seemed interesting, that's why I had | chosen it). | | At a quick search I found this blog-post detailing Poe's | influence on Russian literature [1], apparently he had been | translated in Russian since pretty early on, in the 1840s (via | the French translation, not directly from English). Found this | part pretty interesting: | | > "Edgar Poe--the underground stream in Russia." So the Russian | Symbolist poet Aleksandr Blok noted in his journal for November | 6, 1911, a topic for a future critical study. | | [1] https://simonbeattie.co.uk/blog/archives/2151/ | comprev wrote: | A recent Netflix mini-series based on EAP's writing has just been | released [0] which might explain his work surfacing due to SEO. | | [0] | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fall_of_the_House_of_Ush... | nathell wrote: | Poe's letters (a full collection available from the EAP Society | of Baltimore, https://eapoe.org/works/letters/index.htm), while | for the most part very mundane, provide a unique insight into a | most stormy life. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-10-23 09:00 UTC)