How was Edgar Allan Poe a reformer?

Answer 1

He was against transcendentalism, he was more of a Romanticism person. Transcendentalism is basically being one with nature and embracing it. Appreciating everything around us and all that crap. While Poe and Hawthorne and writers of the sort, wrote more of the darkness and evil that lies within mankind and nature in general. Such as Moby Dick, by Melville, the whale wins at the end showing the triumph of nature over mankind, and in the Scarlet Letter, by Hawthorne, it shows the evils of mankind in the puritan setting. All in all, they all helped people accept Romanticism and that not EVERYTHING has to always be appreciated, there's evil in this world too, and you need accept that.

WOO HOO took me a while to type up good examples, and I almost forgot who wrote Moby Dick haha

Answer 2

Edgar Allan Poe was not known specifically as a reformer. Rather, he was a writer who focused on gothic and mystery literature, often exploring themes of death, madness, and the macabre. His work contributed to the development of the detective fiction genre, but he did not engage in social or political reform movements.