答案:Edgar Allan Poe has been recognized as a great writer of fiction, a poet of the first rank, and a critic of acumen and insight. Poe is the father of many things, one of which is psychoanalytic criticism, the other being the detective story.Poe was good at generalizing. He tried to cash in on his literary practice to rationalize about literary creation. His poetic theories are remarkable in their clarity, which are best elucidated in his “The Philosophy of Composition” and “The Poetic Principle.” He says that the poem should be short and its aims are beauty, melancholy. He insists on a metrical flow in versification.His theories for the short story are equally remarkable. In his opinion, the short story should be short and reveal some logical truth. As a short-story write, Poe was a fascinating man of imagination. In theme, Poe anticipates the twentieth-century literature in his treatment of the disintegration of the self. He places the subconscious condition of the mind under investigation and probes beneath the surface of normal existence.