I think he's a very good writer, but I doubt if he fits the profile of a racialist.

I like him a lot. I don't think he was political at all, tho. He was too busy smoking opium and drinking absinthe. :D

Poe had the aesthetic sensibility that came to be known as "gothic." Spooky stuff, people dressed in black, lurking in cold cellars, etc. Deathly pale and tragically beautiful women, etc. Huge input into JP Lovecraft and finally NSBM whether they recognize it or not.

I personally enjoy his poetry quite a bit.

I just read the Black Cat and Fall of the House of Usher. I thought The Black Cat was a very strong and poetically-charged story, but some scenes were disturbing, like when the narrator cut the one of the cat's eyes out and hung it from a tree. I didn't like Fall of the House of Usher as much; it was well written and had excellent use of words, but it failed to grab my attention.

Anyone here ever read any Washington Irving?

Edgar Allan Poe is the most unfluential and popular american writer, more than 150 years after he died. The jews don't like him.

He was the guy who kickstarted modern literature. I didn't read many of his stories, maybe because the plots of them I already knew through comics and movies. I read a book with his collected letters, quite enjoyable.

I also enjoy his traditional spelling, unfortunately not seen anymore since the demise of the Confederacy and H.P.Lovecraft. I wonder if they "modernized" the spelling of his texts.

A great pity he died so early. I wish he would have lived on to the 1860s and commented on it.

Anyone here ever read any Washington Irving?

Read and adored. Stylistically Irving is one of the finest prose writers of the English lanuage, if not the best to hail from American shores . His every phrase delights the ears and bewitches the senses. His stories aren't half-bad either.