爱伦·坡小说及诗歌创作源头考论

The Origin of Edgar Allan Poe’ s Fiction and Poetry

爱伦·坡在在小说和诗歌创作上取得了非凡成就,对世界文坛产生了重大影响,这与其天资聪颖、勤奋好学和语出惊人的自身禀赋密不可分,与其浓厚的美国本土意识也不无关联。但是,仔细审读其小说和诗歌创作,我们发现,坡在文学创作中,特别是在其推理小说、哥特小说及其诗歌创作中明显受到英国文学的多方影响。这种取法经典和转益多师的创作精神是其创作取得巨大成功并逐渐经典化的重要堂奥之一。

Edgar Allen Poe made extraordinary achievements in the creation of fiction and poetry, creating enormous impacts on the world literature. This was a result of his intelligence, diligence, the gift of making surprising comments and his American native awareness. Through a close reading of his fiction and poems, however, we have found that Poe, in his creation, especially his creation of tales of ratiocination, Gothic fiction and poems, was clearly affected by English literature in many aspects. It was his extensive study of the classics that made his works a huge and a gradually canonized success.