Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809, in Boston, Massachusetts. He was a writer, poet, and editor. Poe's tales of horror lead to many of his works, including “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Fall of the House of Usher,” which became literary classics. "The Raven," which he published in 1845, is considered among the best-known poems in American literature. He is considered to write dark romanticism (often conflated with Gothicism or called American romanticism). This is a literary subgenre. Poe often uses nature in his stories as he establishes the setting and plot of the story. …show more content…
He was a major figure in English landscape painting in the early 19th century. He is best known for his paintings of the English countryside, an area that came to be known as “Constable country.” He was the son of a wealthy miller and merchant who owned a considerably large house and small farm. Constable was reared in a small Suffolk village. He was meant to enter his father’s business, but, after meeting the famous connoisseur Sir George Beaumont in 1795, and then a circle of antiquarians and connoisseurs at Edmonton in 1796, he was inspired to pursue art. John Constable died on March 31, 1837. The Hay Wain, The Cornfield, and Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Grounds were some of his famous works of art. Nature, goodness of humanity, justice, and a strong belief in the senses and emotions-rather than reason and intellect-were the artistic elements in Romanticism. Romantic painters and sculptors tended to express an emotional personal response to