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Through Edgar Allan Poe's magnificent style of writing, he provided the world with some of the most mystifying poems and short stories. Although not appreciated during his time, Poe has gained considerable recognition after his death. James Russel Lowell stated, in a book by Louis Broussard, "He combines in a very remarkable manner two faculties which are seldom found united: a power of influencing the mind of the reader by the impalable shadows of mystery, …

…He probes fascinated, into horrible obsessions, and gazes, enchanted, at eternal beauty (20-21). Poe, the dreamer, is where the analytical study must properly begin; but it must not end until it has accounted for Poe the rationalist, the scientist, the hoaxer, the humanist, and the literary and social critic (Buranelli 21). Poe is a writer of great skill, and had his life not ended so suddenly, he would have produced many more prolific stories and poems.