Eliot discusses the various influences Poe had on such famous authors as Arthur Conan Doyle and H.G. Wells. I especially like how he wrote that

Sherlock Holmes was deceiving Watson when he told him that he had bought his Stradivarius violin for a few shillings at a second hand shop in the Tottenham Court Road. He found that violin in the ruins of the house of Usher.

Eliot then goes on to define the term "la poesie pure" or pure poetry. He says that all poetry starts from our emotions experienced and by our interactions with others. I wasn't sure if this upholds the idea that nothing is original and all work is influenced by something else, so there is no or

Eliot believes that pure poetry came easily to Poe, even with the impurity in his use of words, to Poe, the treatment was everything. He also states that Poe and Valery through their extremes meet with the same result. Poe having no convictions because he never matured to that level, and Valery's adult mind being too skeptical to hold any convictions.

. The death of the author is most apparent in Valery who is not concerned with Poe's lifestyle like Baudelaire, or Poe's versification like Mallerme, but rather the metaphysical and esthetic implications of Poe's work. Valery says " I prize the theories, so profound and so insidiously learned." Once again Eliot mentions the idea of pure poetry and how it is only achieved through by "increasing consciousness of language." This of course we discussed with the author function as well. The idea that we don't write, the language writes and works through the author so that the author is really a function of the language while also a function of the work. Another characteristic Val

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