Edgar Allen Poe (1809-49)

Poe’s poem ‘Eureka’ talks about which motif largely present in his other works?

Conflict of scientific thought & poetic beauty

In which work has Poe called science as “destroyer of beauty” and has compared it with a vulture with “dull wings”?

To Science, a preface to ‘Al Araaf’ (1829)

Which poem of Poe has inspired Dickens’ ‘Barnaby Rudge’?

The Raven (1845)

What is the famous refrain of ‘The Raven’?

“Nevermore”

Which is Poe’s only play?

‘Politician’ (1835)

Which is Poe’s only novel?

‘The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket’

‘The fall of the house of Usher’ was first published in?

Burton’s Gentleman’s Magazine

Which work of Poe has an epigraph from Petrarch?

‘The Purloined Letter’

In which work has Lacan made a critical commentary on The Purloined Letter’?

‘Ecrits’

Which critic has equated the queen’s purloined letter as a substitute for a phallus?

Barbara Johnson

Which story of Poe has an unreliable narrator?

The Tell-Tale Heart (1843)

In which critical work has Poe analysed his ‘The Raven’ & that the death of a woman is the most poetic topic?

The Philosophy of Composition (1846)

Poe was against which literary movement/group?

Transcedentalists

(He was against the “excesses of suggested meaning”)

‘The Raven’ belonged to which literary movement?

Dark Romanticism

Which story is the first of modern Detective fiction that Poe inaugurated?

The Murders in the Rue Morgue

Who has translated Poe’s works?

Baudelaire