1. Edgar Allan Poe & Walt Whitman Veronika Řeháková, C4B

2. Edgar Allan Poe Basic facts Detective story A major horror writer Poet Bleak and dramatic life

3. Edgar Allan Poe Tragic life story Born in Boston in 1809 Orphan- 3years old Foster parents 1827- Tamerlane and Other poems Trouble with job- Acohol Virginia Clemm 1849- Baltimore

4. Edgar Allan Poe Pieces of work Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque (1840) The Black Cat and Other Stories (1843) The Fall of the House of Usher Manuscript Found in a Bottle The Murders in the Rue Morgue The Black Cat (1845)

5. Edgar Allan Poe The Raven And the raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming, And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor; And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted - nevermore!

6. Walt Whitman Basic facts American poet Essayist Journalist Democracy, Humanity

7. Walt Whitman His life Was born in 1819 in Huntington in Long Island in NY 1832- office boy for two lawyers 1837- teacher in village 1839- priter´s devil for the Patriot 1848-1850- led the newspaper the Freeman- slavery 1873- stroke

8. Walt Whitman Pieces of work Franklin Evans (1842) Drum-Taps (1865)- Rány na buben Democratic Vistas (1871) – Vyhlídky demokracie Memoranda During the War (1876) Specimen Days (1882)- Příkladné dny

9. Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass „You cannot really understand America without Walt Whitman,without Leaves of Grass“ 1855-first edition Re-writing Philosophy of life, humanity

10. Questions 1.Who was Edgar Allan Poe? 2.Name 2 pieces of work by E.A.Poe 3.Which piece of work wrote Walt Whitman? 4.Walt Whitman believes in democracy and humanity. Is it true?

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12. Zdroje: 1) poe. bridge-online. 18.11.2015 [cit. 2015-11-17]. Dostupné z: www.bridge-online.cz 2) wikipedia.com