THE TWO SIDES OF EDGAR POE’S PERSONALITY: Personal Tragedy Reflected in Works

Lela Ebralidze

Authors

Lela Ebralidze

Keywords:

Poe, poet, writer, literary critic, genius, literary genre

Abstract

The present article deals with the life and works of Edgar Allan Poe. It is an attempt at analyzing Poe’s personality and works in the light of his personal experiences, particularly the tragic events that can account for most of the negative opinions associated with his name. This paper looks at the American poet, writer and literary critic from the point of view of his greatest, most famous creations reflecting his authentic self. While considering all the negative factors his lifestyle and activity were largely conditioned by, focus is made on Poe’s genius, his deserts and his role in the development of different literary genres and enrichment of the world literature.

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Author Biography

Lela Ebralidze

The author of this article graduated the Department of West European Languages and Literature, TSU, with honours in 1992. From September 1994, she has worked as a lecturer teaching the English language and translation (literary, academic, legal, consecutive etc.) at TSU. In 2013, she obtained her PHD. The title of her thesis is “Poetic Images and Their Transformation in Translation”. She has published a bilingual anthology of British and American poetry translated by her (2006) and the Georgian translation of Oscar Wilde’s “The Ballad of Reading Gaol” (2017, a bilingual publication). From 2015, she has been an Assistant Professor at the Department of Humanities, Philological Direction, Faculty of Translation Studies. She has been studying and translating Edgar Poe’s poetry for several years and has completed the translation of poetry collection by Edgar Poe, which will soon be published as a bilingual book.