Poe vs Hemingway, whose short story style actually holds up better today?

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Edgar Allan Poe and Ernest Hemingway represent genuinely opposite short story philosophies, with Poe's dense, atmospheric, adjective rich prose building dread through accumulation while Hemingway's famously spare, understated style does the opposite, building meaning through what's deliberately left unsaid. Both remain massively influential but for genuinely different reasons and different kinds of writers. Curious whose specific style people think actually holds up better for a modern reader

Doesn't need to be a clean universal answer, curious how people weigh atmospheric density against minimalist restraint here. Both approaches genuinely still get taught and imitated constantly

Who's your pick, and why specifically. Genuinely curious how differently people are weighing this

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