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Edgar Allan Poe
Writer whose architectural imagery is analyzed for romantic decay.
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Also known as Poe, Edgar Poe
First appearance: i
Edgar Allan Poe shows up with force in IV: The Diaspora of the Pioneer. The page is where that presence becomes real.
Noted as a figure whose architectural imagination was stifled by the utilitarian society, dreaming of the Domain of Arnheim.
Edgar Allan Poe first appears in 0024 i.
In IV: The Diaspora of the Pioneer: Noted as a figure whose architectural imagination was stifled by the utilitarian society, dreaming of the Domain of Arnheim.
Later, in II: Poe is mentioned as a dreamer of fantastic domains like the Domain of Arnheim, representing the stifled architectural imagination in an industrial age.
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- IV: The Diaspora of the Pioneer
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- The Gridiron Plan and the Pioneer's Comfort
- The Disintegration of Architecture: 1820-1865
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