Poe's literary theory repeatedly stressed art for art's sake, an idea somewhat removed from the era's general literary belief that literature should teach or preach a moral lesson. Furthermore, Poe advocated the "single effect" theory in his literary criticism and practiced it within his own poems and stories. It.....
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