I asked myself “Of all melancholy topics, what, according to the universal understanding of mankind, is the most melancholy?” Death-was the obvious reply. “And when,” I said, “is this most melancholy of topics most poetical?” From what I have already 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-equally is it beyond doubt that the lips best suited for such topic are those of a bereaved lover.” Edgar Allan Poe “The Philosophy of Compostion”
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