Oh, that's funny! To see a rhymed poem be translated throught French into English prose.That's really funny.
He became so popular because he fitted just fine into that group of poets called "the cursed poets". They were all poets who were attracted by the the dark side of life. The fin de siècle , the end of the century 'Spleen' '-- 'Weltschmerz
Poems called The Unreparable, Dance Macabre,The Lithanies of Satan.
As some of those poets mastered English quite well, they could read him and take him in as a kindred soul?;)It was a steady group in spite of differences. Edgar Degas, the impressionist painter of the ballet dancers, made a group portrait of them.They loved Poe's sense of the gloomy ,the macabre.They did hashish,opium etc. Romantisism , Weltschmerz.
Poems about poison and demons.Les Poètes Maudites were en vogue in the avant garde combined with the impressionists and symbolists.
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