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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 6: the short story (search)
was not the creator of the short story; he was the first to feel the new demand of his age and to forecast the new art and formulate its laws. In the realm of the short story Poe was a prophet, peering into the next age, rather than a leader of his own time. Until later years his influence was small. He had applied his new art to the old sensational material of the thirties—old wine in new bottles. The annuals and all they stood for were passing rapidly. Putnam's magazine noted in February, 1853, the great change that had come over the literature for the holiday period. It used to be the custom to issue when Christmas approached an almost endless variety of Gifts, Remembrances, Gems, Tokens, Wreathes, Irises, Albums, &c, with very bad mezzotint engravings and worse letter-press,—ephemeral works, destined to perish in a few weeks; but that custom appears to be rapidly passing away. The decline of the old type of story explains why Hawthorne turned to the production of long