{"id":89078,"date":"2015-08-21T16:39:41","date_gmt":"2015-08-21T20:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=89078"},"modified":"2015-08-24T10:18:28","modified_gmt":"2015-08-24T14:18:28","slug":"beardsleys-poe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/21\/beardsleys-poe\/","title":{"rendered":"Beardsley\u2019s Poe"},"content":{"rendered":"

Illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley, made to accompany\u00a0Edgar Allan Poe\u2019s short stories. Beardsley, born on August 21, 1872, favored the grotesque and the erotic in his drawings and had a large influence on the developing the Art Nouveau style, though he lived only to twenty-five. He also illustrated work by Oscar Wilde and Alexander Pope and helped found <\/em>The Yellow Book.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 From \u201cThe Murders in the Rue Morgue.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 From \u201cThe Black Cat.\u201d<\/p><\/div>

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 From \u201cThe Fall of the House of Usher.\u201d<\/p><\/div>

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 From \u201cThe Masque of the Red Death.\u201d<\/p><\/div>

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\u00a0 Edgar Allan Poe.<\/p><\/div>

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 From \u201cThe Black Cat.\u201d<\/p><\/div>

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 From \u201cThe Murders in the Rue Morgue.\u201d<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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