Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical BiographyRenowned as the creator of the detective story and a master of horror, the author of "The Red Mask of Death," "The Black Cat," and "The Murders of the Rue Morgue," Edgar Allan Poe seems to have derived his success from suffering and to have suffered from his success. "The Raven" and "The Tell-Tale Heart" have been read as signs of his personal obsessions, and "The Fall of the House of Usher" and "The Descent into the Maelstrom" as symptoms of his own mental collapse. Biographers have seldom resisted the opportunities to confuse the pathologies in the stories with the events in Poe's life. Against this tide of fancy, guesses, and amateur psychologizing, Arthur Hobson Quinn's biography devotes itself meticulously to facts. Based on exhaustive research in the Poe family archive, Quinn extracts the life from the legend, and describes how they both were distorted by prior biographies. " |
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... ALLAN FACING 62 FRANCES VALENTINE ALLAN FACING 62 POE'S SCHOOL AT STOKE - NEWINGTON , ENGLAND FACING 74 JOHN BRANSBY , POE'S ENGLISH SCHOOLMASTER • FACING 74 JANE STITH CRAIG STANARD . FACING 86 ONE OF POE'S RICHMOND HOMES . 92 THE ...
... ALLAN POE IN 1848 FACING 574 MARIA CLEMM . EDGAR ALLAN POE IN 1849 FACING 606 FACING 622 Foreword Like Americans more generally , scholars of American literature X ILLUSTRATIONS.
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... Allan " evidently failed to send any pocket money at all . To a college where the proctor estimated that the great majority of the young men spent at least five hundred dollars in one session , Poe was sent by John Allan deliberately ...
... Allan Poe Professor of American Literature at the University of Virginia , has gen- erously given me permission to print in complete form for the first time certain letters of Poe to " Annie , " which he has been preserving for his ...
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