The Oval Portrait
11/25/23 • 19 min
If art is beauty, does it come from artist who see beauty in the world or artists who see imperfections in themselves? Is art capable of capturing the beauty of life, without endangering the life of the artist themself? These questions and more are the theme of The Oval Portrait by Edgar Allan Poe.
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If art is beauty, does it come from artist who see beauty in the world or artists who see imperfections in themselves? Is art capable of capturing the beauty of life, without endangering the life of the artist themself? These questions and more are the theme of The Oval Portrait by Edgar Allan Poe.
Visit the Poe Show Patreon to support the podcast, get a shoutout on an episode, and gain access to behind the scenes content: https://www.patreon.com/ThePoeShowPodcast
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Episode music and narration by Tynan Portillo. Intro music by Emmett Cooke on PremiumBeat.
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The Poe Show - The Oval Portrait
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Tynan Portillo presents...featuring the best horror stories of the 19th century...welcome to The Poe Show podcast. Narrated by Tynan Portillo.
Today's episode, The Oval Portrait by Edgar Allan Poe.
THE chateau into which my valet had ventured to make forcible entrance, rather than permit me, in my desperately wounded condition, to pass a night in the open air, was one of those piles of commingled gloom and grandeur which have so long frowned among the Appennines, not less in fact than in
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