532 Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The History of Literature
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Edgar Poe's Imagination
Poe merely supposes the outward possibility of an unnatural event, though he always demonstrates logically that possibility. He chooses as a rule the most extravagant reality places his hero in a most extraordinary outward or psychological situation. Poe seems almost uniquely able to inspire future generations of writers the way they admired him. It's easy to see Dostoevsky reading the telltale heart admiring the detail and the immersion of Poe's imaginative power on that scenario.
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