That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating, and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.
— Edgar Allan Poe Modern

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Essay: 'The Philosophy of Composition'

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1846

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Strange & Unusual

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https://www.eapoe.org/works/essays/philcomp.htm

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