5. Edgar Allan Poe(1809-1849) Poe, a pioneering aesthetician, psychological investigator and literary technician Poe worked hard at structuring his tales of aristocratic madmen. self-tormented murderers. neurasthenic necrophilia's, and other deviant types so as to produce the greatest possible horrific effects on the reader Such writers have been influenced by Poe: Frank Norris Theodore Dreiser. and William Faulkner. Vladimir Navokov. Charles Baudelaire and Stephane Mallarme idolize Poe and translate his works lovingly 1212 5. Edgar Allan Poe (1809—1849) ◼ Poe, a pioneering aesthetician, psychological investigator, and literary technician. ◼ Poe worked hard at structuring his tales of aristocratic madmen, self-tormented murderers, neurasthenic necrophilia’s, and other deviant types so as to produce the greatest possible horrific effects on the reader. ◼ Such writers have been influenced by Poe: Frank Norris, Theodore Dreiser, and William Faulkner, Vladimir Navokov. Charles Baudelaire and Stephane Mallarme idolize Poe and translate his works lovingly