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...Burton’s Gentleman’s Magazine in Philadelphia. There a contract for a monthly feature stimulated him to write
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and
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stories of supernatural horror. The latter contains a study of a neurotic now known to have been an acquaintance of Poe, not Poe himself.
...short-story writer E.T.A. Hoffmann—but for Debussy it was a theory more sensitively expressed in the tales of Edgar Allan Poe. Throughout his life Debussy planned to set
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in the form of an opera—the shadow of the tale never having been realized in Pelléas et Mélisande—and actually...
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