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Poe's best known fiction works are Gothic, a genre he followed to appease the public taste.
His most recurring themes deal with questions of death, including its physical signs, the effects of decomposition, concerns of premature burial, the reanimation of the dead, and mourning.
Many of his works are generally considered part of the dark romanticism genre, a literary reaction to transcendentalism, which Poe strongly disliked.
He referred to followers of the movement as " Frog-Pondians " after the pond on Boston Common.
and ridiculed their writings as " metaphor-run mad ," lapsing into " obscurity for obscurity's sake " or " mysticism for mysticism's sake.
" Poe once wrote in a letter to Thomas Holley Chivers that he did not dislike Transcendentalists, " only the pretenders and sophists among them.

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