Dick, in Edgar Allan Poe's Ligeia and The Fall of the House of Usher, which were to suggest to many later critics some previously un- perceived connections between 19th-century American writing and the con- cerns of modem fiction.
His timeless reminder to critics-and ordinary readers: "It is hard to hear a new voice, as hard as it is to listen to an unknown language. We just don't listen. There is a new voice in the old American classics. The world has declined to hear it. . . . Why?-Out of...