Edgar Allan Poe's image and import in Spanish America shifted during the twentieth century, and this shift is clearly connected to the work of three writers - Horacio Quiroga, Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar. In Borges's Poe, Emron Esplin focuses on Borges and argues that he served as the primary catalyst that changed Poe's image throughout Spanish America from a poet-prophet to a timeless fiction writer.

Emron Esplin is assistant professor of English at Brigham Young University.