萧伯纳曾说:“美国只有两位伟大的作家,一位是马克·吐温,一位是爱伦·坡。”爱伦·坡是19世纪初期美国著名的诗人、小说家和文艺理论家。他不仅继承了文学传统中的精湛艺术,更是毕生致力于探索艺术形式的独创性。他曾感叹道:“英美作家的最大毛病在于模仿和听从前人的思想。他们踩在前人已经踏平了 George Bernard Shaw once said: ”There are only two great writers in the United States, one is Mark Twain and one is Ellen Poe.“ Ellen Poe is a famous American poet, novelist and theory of literature and art in the early 19th century Family. He not only inherited the fine arts in the literary tradition, but devoted himself to exploring the originality of the art forms all his life. He exclaimed: ”The greatest fault of the Anglo-American writers is that they imitate and listen to the thoughts of their predecessors.