Poe's Menacing Mind Edgar Allan Poe is a major American Poet of the Nineteenth Century. He is also known for his achievements in short fiction and criticism for American Literature. In Poe's tales he uses setting to set the mood and to foreshadow certain things in his essays. In the two stories "The Fall of the House of Usher" and "The Cask of Amontillado" setting is used in great detail to help set the mood …showed first 75 words of 772 total…

…showed last 75 words of 772 total…imagined the short stories uniqueness, strengths, and possibilities. Bibliography Works Cited Beaty, Jerome, and J. Paul Hunter. The Norton Introduction to Literature. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1998. Magill, Frank N. "Edgar Allan Poe." Critical Survey of Short Fiction. 1981 ed. Magill, Frank N. "Edgar Allan Poe." Magill's Survey of American Literature. 1991 ed. Stoudt, Ashley, ed. Edgar Allan Poe Reader. Philadelphia: Courage, 1993. Szumski, Bonnie, eds., et al. Readings on Edgar Allan Poe. San Diego: Greenhaven, 1998.