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I have been reading Edgar Allan Poe's short stories and even though this might be too off topic... I have found many of them every difficult to understand without me looking up summaries of many of his short stories online.
I am wondering if anyone else finds Poe's writings significantly more difficult to read than modern fiction. With the words in languages that are foreign to me along with many vocabulary words that I am not familiar with I often have a difficult time understanding what I am reading.
In my defense, my strengths in academics have always been with literature and forms of writing. Reading comprehension is probably my strongest area. I am wondering if many if not most of Poe's short stories are harder for me to comprehend upon my initial reading because of the fact that it is not modern fiction? Many years have past since Poe wrote and maybe the change in the way people deliver language has changed significantly since the 1800's. I am assuming it has.
Also, Poe being a genius makes it a lot more difficult to understand his writings as well for me at least.
I am wondering if anyone has any thoughts on this. I do love Poe, and I have not ever heard of Lovecraft until coming across this thread and reading its contents.
Hopefully this isn't too of topic.
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