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Next,I will give all of you some notice information about some famous authors. Let
begin with Edgar Allan Poe. (He was called the “architect” of the modern short
story). Poe was one of the country's earliest practitioners of the short story and
considered to be the inventor of the detective fiction genre, as well as a significant
contributor to the emerging genre of science fiction. so, he had some Notable
works such as “The Fall of the House of Usher” (1839) “The Black Cat” (1843)
“The Raven” (1845) and so on.
Now, we moving to some more details of his works
The first is “The Black Cat” (1843) published in 1845 edition of The Saturday
Evening Post. "The Black Cat" is one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous works,
and a powerful warning against the dangers of alcoholism. The story is a study of
the psychology of guilt, in which a murderer tries to hide his crime. But in the end,
his guilt makes him admit the crime.
In 1845, Poe became largely popular through his poem The Raven, which showed
up in his last volume. "The Raven" is a narrative poem by American writer Edgar
Allan Poe, first published in January 1845. It tells the story of a mysterious
talking raven who visits a lover; it shows how the lover is slowly going insane. It is
often called Poe's most famous poem, its publication made him famous in his day,
and today it is still one of the most recognized and respected poems in American
literature.
Moving on to another authors is Lydia Child. She founded and published Juvenile
Miscellany, the first children's magazine in the United States. Child also wrote on
housekeeping and child rearing, slavery, abolitionism, religion, women's issues,
and Native American rights. She had many noticeable works but the most
prominent is "Over the River and Through the Wood", So now I will give you some
summary information about this.
"Over the River and Through the Wood" is a Thanksgiving poem. It appeared in
the second volume of her Flowers for Children in 1844. The original title of the
poem is, "The New-England Boy's Song About Thanksgiving Day".
this poem is easily Child’s most famous work. Child never revised the poem
herself, but the verses changed over time, especially when they were set to music.