“Poe’s short passage from poetry contains, in essence, all the themes he would later develop in his prose: pessimism, obsession with death, strange eerie landscapes, metaphysical horror, passionate loves that end in the grave.\u00a0His universe is a world where there is only himself, surrounded by ghosts and macabre apparitions, by unspeakable sensations that he alone perceives.\u00a0As he himself says: “Often it seemed to me that I could clearly hear the sound of darkness, as it swept across the horizon.”\u00a0Edgar Allan Poe, the Poet of Erebus\u2026\u201d from the introduction<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
“Poe’s short passage from poetry contains, in essence, all the themes he would later develop in his prose: pessimism, obsession with death, strange eerie landscapes, metaphysical horror, passionate loves that end in the grave.\u00a0His universe is a world where there is only himself, surrounded by ghosts and macabre apparitions, by unspeakable sensations that he alone perceives.\u00a0As he himself says: “Often it seemed to me that I could clearly hear the sound of darkness, as it swept across the horizon.”\u00a0Edgar Allan Poe, the Poet of Erebus\u2026\u201d from the introduction<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2211,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[449],"product_tag":[],"authors":[402],"translators":[424],"class_list":{"0":"post-2710","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-foreign-poetry","7":"authors-poe-edgar-allan","8":"translators-horoskelis-dimitris","10":"first","11":"instock","12":"purchasable","13":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n