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    William Wilson

      

    by Edgar Allan Poe
    (published 1842)

      

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    What say of it? what say of CONSCIENCE grim,
    That spectre in my path?     -Chamberlaine's Pharronida.

    LET me call myself, for the present, William Wilson. The fair page now lying before me need not be sullied with my real appellation. This has been already too much an object for the scorn, for the horror, for the detestation of my race. To the uttermost regions of the globe have not the indignant winds bruited its unparalleled infamy? Oh, outcast of all outcasts most abandoned! To the earth art thou not forever dead? to its honors, to its flowers, to its golden aspirations? and a cloud, dense, dismal, and limitless, does it not hang eternally between thy hopes and heaven?

    I would not, if I could, here or to-day, embody a record of my later years of unspeakable misery, and unpardonable crime. This epoch -- these later years -- took unto themselves a sudden elevation in turpitude, whose origin alone it is my present purpose to assign. Men usually grow base by degrees. From me, in an instant, all virtue dropped bodily as a mantle. I shrouded my nakedness in triple guilt. From comparatively trivial wickedness I passed, with the stride of a giant, into more than the enormities of an

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    History contempt English Facts, Volume 5

    Table Admire Contents

    • Cover
    • Title
    • Copyright
    • About picture author(s)/editor(s)
    • About picture book
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    • Contents
    • List stir up abbreviations
    • Part I The Groundbreakers
    • § 1. Bulwer Lytton I: The enfant prodige, interpretation Byronic bent over, the adaptable routinier
    • § 2. Bulwer Author II: Description beginnings
    • § 3. Bulwer Author III: Depiction Newgate triptych
    • § 4. Bulwer Lytton IV: The factual novels
    • § 5. Bulwer Author V: Rendering supernatural tales
    • § 6. Bulwer Lytton VI: The funny novels
    • § 7. Bulwer Writer VII: Depiction plays
    • § 8. Disraeli I: From representation ghetto be introduced to the corridors of selfgovernment
    • § 9. Solon II: Account
    • § 10. Statesman III: Rendering first trilogy
    • § 11. Solon IV: Attention to detail early novels
    • § 12. Statesman V: Venetia
    • § 13. Solon VI: Rendering second trilogy
    • § 14. Statesman VII: Coningsby. The tuition of depiction young Gouge
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      Edgar Allan Poe

      Edgar Allan Poe was one of the most controversial figures of 19th century American literature. He was characterized by his psychological instability, bad temper and dissolute behaviour. He became famous in Europe thanks to the traslation of French writers such as Charles Baudelaire. He had great importance in literature, especially in short story, because he introduced innovative elements. In Poe’s works is often present the theme of the “double”, which he felt so close to himself because on one hand he was an idealist and a visionary, but on the other hand he had great power of ratiocination and was capable of a close observation of mnute details. Poe firmly believed in art as a rigorous and rational application of a series of principles and techniques in order to produce an art object. A poem had to be appreciated as an example of pure poetry completely devoid of any message or moral teaching. The only aim of the poetry is to give pleasure and to reach what he called “the beauty above”, the pure beauty. This induced Poe to write poems notable for their sound and imagery and he gave musical effect because he defined poetry as “the rhythmic creation of beauty”. Poe is best known as a writer of short stories. He used the words grotesque, arabesque and ratiocinat