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Best known for his poems--The Raven (1845) and short fiction. A nineteenth-century American author known for Edgar Allan Poe poems and horror stories. Poe associated the aesthetic aspect of art with pure ideality, claiming that the mood or sentiment created by a work of art elevates the soul, and was thus a spiritual experience. In many of his short stories, artistically inclined characters were able to achieve this ideal aesthetic through fixation, and often exhibited obsessive personalities and reclusive tendencies. |
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
Best known for his famous fiction--A Study in Scarlet (1887). Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a prolific writer whose other works include science fiction stories, historical novels, plays and romances, poetry, and non-fiction. He was sometimes called Conan Doyle¡XConan was originally a middle name but he used it as part of his surname in his later years. |
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