埃德加·爱伦·坡(1809-1849)生前作品并不多：七十几个短篇小说，一个中篇，五十几首诗歌，以及一些随笔和评论，但是他在美国乃至整个世界文学中的地位和作用是不可替代的。

• With a relatively small volume of works, about seventy short stories, a short novel, some fifty poems, and a roughly equivalent volume of essays, Edgar Allan Poe has exerted a substantial influence on American and world literature.