Team Edgar

Edgar Allen Poe was quite obviously the best Gothic author. He wrote with such description and put so much feeling into his writing. Whenever I read his writing I am always captivated and intrigued. Now I am not saying that Nathaniel Hawthorne was not a great Gothic author, as the Scarlet Letter was a very interesting book. Maybe it is just that I am a little biased as I have read much more of Poe's work than I have of Hawthorne's through my school years. So I have come to appreciate Poe much more. Poe also does a wonderful job channeling the problems in his life into the poems or stories he writes. Like the "Oval Portrait" was an amazing allegory for how his wife was dying as he was working. Really I cannot say enough about his description though. In the story the "House of Usher" where he talks of the dying house, and just everything in that story is well done. I just enjoy Edgar more than Nathaniel, simple as that.