Conrad vs. Poe

[beautiful_nemo]

I need help with a paper i'm writing...just a simple thought to push me in the right direction.

how did Joseph Conrad's work influence Edgar Allan Poe in American Literature???

the dark side of the human psyche??

any ideas????

[Il Penseroso]

shouldn't it be the other way around? Poe was before Conrad, if I do remember correctly.

[beautiful_nemo]

i know...but my british lititure teacher isn't looking at it that way...
it's so confusing...:flare:

[maury]

One thing it's taken me a long time to learn but I've found to be very true is that there is no such thing as a stupid question -- I'd suggest that you ask your literature teacher just what he or she means.