Poe's Earthly Paradise
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2729648 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert D Jacobs (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1960 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 404 |
| Publication date | 1960-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0678 • E-ISSN: 1080-6490 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2710098 |
| OpenAlex | W2318050753 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
ONE OF THE PERSISTENT THEMES IN CERTAIN OF EDGAR ALLAN POE'S WRITINGS concerns the distortion in the physical universe that attended man's fall from a state of innocence and earthly immortality. The subject was ancient, of course. It had engaged the imagination of the Western World throughout the Middle Ages, and the basic idea, that of the degeneration of the world from a primal Golden Age, was expressed by the Greek poet, Hesiod, centuries before the spread of Christianity established the Garden of Eden as the archetypal earthly paradise in the medieval mind. Poe's own treatment of the theme is crucial to an understanding of his work, however, because by it he expresses his concept of the artist's role in adapting nature to the aesthetic requirements and emotional needs of
Art · Art history · Paradise · Environmental, Ecological, and Cultural Studies · Literary, Cultural, Historical Analysis
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2023 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |