Edgar Allan Poe And Music
The influence of Edgar Allan Poe on the art of music has been considerable and long-standing, with the works, life and image of the horror fiction writer and poet inspiring composers and musicians from diverse genres for more than a century.
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“Imperceptibly the love of these dischords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)
“No sooner had I glanced at this letter, than I concluded it to be that of which I was in search. To be sure, it was, to all appearance, radically different from the one of which the Prefect had read us so minute a description.... But, then, the radicalness of these differences ... these things ... were strongly corroborative of suspicion.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)
“Men die nightly in their beds, wringing the hands of ghostly confessors ... on account of the hideousness of mysteries which will not suffer themselves to be revealed.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)
“Aouda: Mr. Fogg, why must you be so ... so British?
Phileas Fogg: Madam, I am what I am.
Aouda: No. You’re kind and warm and generous.”
—James Poe (1921–1980)
“The harp that once through Tara’s halls The soul of music shed, Now hangs as mute on Tara’s walls As if that soul were fled.”
—Thomas Moore (1779–1852)