Essay on Edgar Allen Poe and Harriet Beecher Stowe

By Lee A Zito
Reading the works of Edgar Allen Poe and Harriet Beecher Stowe gave me two completely different feelings, because the works are completely different from each other. From their subject matter, to technique, and style, both writer's wrote with different purposes in mind.
Edgar Allen Poe's work gives off a sense of gloom and confusion. Not confusion in a total clueless way, but confusion in uncertainty and morbid suspense. Poe's style does not surprise me after reading his biography. His life was surrounded by death, the death of this mother and father, and also the death…