ABSTRACT
Storms occupied a prominent place in the tales of Edgar Allan Poe because they were a convenient phenomena to produce a locus horrendus, a dark place through which it would be possible to arouse intended effects. However, before the Romantic movement, the maritime incident, as topos, was recurrent in different poetic genres, especially in the epic poems. This article aims to map some descriptions of storms so that it might be possible to analyze the way Poe imitated this tradition for the elaboration of a tale titled Manuscript Found in a Bottle, published in 1833.
Keywords:
Edgar Allan Poe; storm; sublime; epic; locus horrendus