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The Philosophy of Composition
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Will Dockery
May 23, 2013, 3:29:46 PM5/23/13
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”...I asked myself--- 'of all melancholy topics, what, according to the universal understanding of mankind, is the most melancholy?' Death was the obvious reply. 'And when,' I said, 'is this most melancholy topic most poetical?' From what I have already explained at some length, the answer, here also, is obvious-- 'When it most closely allies itself to Beauty: the death, then, of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world--and equally is it beyond doubt that the lips best suited for such topic are those of a bereaved lover." -Edgar Allan Poe, 'The Philosophy of Composition', 1846
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