Question

in edgar allan poe's "the philosophy of composition," how does poe say the "unity of effect" is affected by the length of a poem

Answer 1

Poe believed that all literary works shoud be short. "There is" he writes "a distinct limit... to all works of literary art - the limit of a single sitting." He mostly emphasized this "rule" with regards to poetry, but he also noted that the short story is superior to the novel for this reason