...unrepresentability of death that asks for this substitution; as Edgar Allan Poe famously thought, 'the death [...] of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world'.1'' Cross-references between the morbid, the erotic, the aesthetic, and the religious abound...

...explained at some length, the answer, here also, is obvious "When it most closely allies itself to Beauty: the death, then, of a beautiful woman is,...unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world - and equally is it beyond doubt that the lips best suited for such topic are those of a bereaved lover."23...

...the gloomy, mysterious, and horrible effect in Usher. In his "Philosophy of Composition", Poe writes "the death, then, of a beautiful woman is unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world"(1601), the beautiful woman in this case is Madeline Usher - there is no direct comment on physical...

...mingling his with Beauty's breath"1 and expresses hereby what may be considered as his artistic credo: "the death, then, of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic of the world . . ."2 Indeed, Poe insistently figures the death of beauty and vice versa the beauty...

...Era of High Capitalism. Trans. Harry Zohn (London: Verso, 1983). Blasco, Marita Nadal. '"The Death of a Beautiful Woman Is, Unquestionably, the Most Poetical Topic in the World": Poetic and Parodic Treatment of Women in Poe's Tales'. Gender, I-Deology: Essays on Theory, Fiction...

...particular emblem of Hope was widely circulated. 7. Like other writers of the time, Edgar Allan Poe believed "the death, then, of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world" ("Philosophy of Composition" 486). 8. Sprague is probably referring to the Englishwoman Mary Lundie...