>>Poe is quoted about the death of a beautiful
women being the most
beautiful thing in the world. >>
Poe actually said, "of all melancholy topics, what, according
to the universal understanding of mankind, is the most
melancholy?" Death was the obvious reply. "And when," I said,
"is this most melancholy topic most poetical?" From what I
have already explained at some length, the answer, here also,
is obvious--"When it most closely allies itself to Beauty:
the death, then, of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the
most poetical topic in the world."
Big difference there.
Bill Crider
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