@Plough@fxxfy For my money, it has to be Poe, who exerted a disproportionate influence on popular (horror, fantasy, detective fiction) and high culture (a direct line of poetry from Baudelaire to Eliot). Most people know at least a line from The Raven (a poem honoured in The Simpsons!).
@nguyenhdi For my money, it has to be Poe, who exerted a disproportionate influence on popular (horror, fantasy, detective fiction) and high culture (a direct line of poetry from Baudelaire to Eliot). Most people know at least a line from The Raven (a poem honoured in The Simpsons!).