爱伦·坡是文学史上一位伟大的小说家,诗人,批评家。他在诗歌创作上注重描写灵魂深处的状态,并富于音乐感和忧郁美;提出诗歌要写“美”的唯美主义学派原则,主张“为艺术而艺术”。他拥有自己系统的创作文学理论。他最杰出的成就主要表现在小说上,小说的主题是恐怖和死亡,通过描写人物的内心世界,尤其是人格中被忽略的病态或阴暗的方面达到预设的恐怖效果,这使他成为美国哥特式小说的创始人。 Allan Poe is a great novelist, poet and critic in the history of literature. He paid great attention to describing the state of the soul in his poetry creation, and was full of musical and melancholy beauty. He put forward the aesthetic school principle of “beauty” in poetry and advocated “art for art ”. He has his own system of creative literary theory. His most outstanding achievement is mainly manifested in the novel. The theme of the novel is horror and death. By prescribing the horrific effects of depicting the inner world of characters, especially neglected morbid or gloomy aspects of personality, this makes him the United States Founder of Gothic novel.