Romanticism created the unique world of literature, combining good and evil, past and future, imagination and reality. It is full of dark mysteries, horrible secrets, extraordinary elements, melancholy and historical events. Sometimes the border between human imagination and real life becomes so vague that it is almost impossible to distinguish the truth. Moreover, the composition of the works of that period was quite predetermined by their tendency for the unusual and supernatural. The reader can …showed first 75 words of 1396 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1396 total…own vision of life, including fantastic elements. Edgar Allan Poe is a great master of the short story. What is more, his unique handling of the plot structure emphasizes the directness, energy, clarity and particularity of ideas. The reader gets strongly impressed by his every work, plunging into fragile world of human desires, fears and expectations. Bibliography: Edgar Allan Poe, "The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales", The New American Library, Inc., 1960