Authors of the Romantic Era

1. Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809, in Boston, MA and died at the age of 40
on October 7, 1849, in Baltimore, MD. He is best known for his Tales of the macabre and
his Poems, as well as being one of the early practitioners of the short story and a
progenitor of detective fiction, as well as crime fiction in the United States. He is also
often credited with inventing the gothic fiction story. Poe died at the age of 40, the cause
of his death a final mystery. His exact burial location is also a source of controversy. He
was a romantic poet; he wrote books like the raven, the black cat, etc. In Edgar Allan
Poe, he uses the element of darkness in his literature.
2. However, Edgar Allan Poe reminds me of another author that I have heard of her name is
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Edgar and Mary are both dark poets that were both born in
The Romantic Era of Literature. Their poetry speaks about supernatural things that
happen in our everyday lives.
3. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was born on August 30, 1797, in London, England. She
married poet Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1816. Two years later, she published her most
famous novel, Frankenstein. She wrote several other books, including Valperga (1823),
The Last Man (1826), the autobiographical Lodore (1835) and the posthumously
published Mathilde. My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they
were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.- Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley.
4. The next Author that I am going to talk about reminds me of both Edgar Allam Poe and
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. His name Bram Stoker is an Irish author who also writer
Gothic Novels. Edgar, Mary, And Bram are all three Dark poets they were all three born
in the romantic period. When they write, their stories are a part of them.
5. Bram Stoker, he was Born on November 8, 1847. Stoker was a man of considerable
energy and talent. After Dracula, his novels of mystery and horror include The Jewel of
Seven Stars (1903), a compelling Rider Haggard-like tale of adventure and romance set
in Egypt, The Lady of the Shroud (1909), and The Lair of the White Worm (1911), both
of which are interesting novels and deserve more than a passing glance, though they are
not near the achievement that Dracula is. Some of Stoker's short tales of horror,
particularly "Dracula's Guest," an episode cut from the final version of Dracula, as well
as the Poe-like "The Judge's House," are very good and well worth reading. When Bram
Stoker was live he wrote 35 books; His most famous book was Dracula, they even made
a movie out of it. How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to
whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.-
Bram Stoker died on April 20, 1912.