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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... Quinn. Edgar Allan Poe A CRITICAL BIOGRAPHY By ARTHUR HOBSON QUINN with a new foreword by SHAWN ROSENHEIM THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS BALTIMORE AND LONDON Originally published in 1941 by Appleton - Century - Crofts.
... University Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America on acid - free paper Johns Hopkins Paperbacks edition , 1998 9876543 The Johns Hopkins University Press 2715 North Charles Street Baltimore , Maryland 21218 ...
... UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA VI . " TAMERLANE " AND THE ARMY . VII . HOPE DEFERRED- " AL AARAAF " xix 1 51 65 81 97 • 118 138 VIII . WEST POINT AND THE " POEMS " OF 1831 . 166 • IX . BALTIMORE - THE EARLY FICTION 186 . X. THE EDITOR OF THE ...
... UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA IN POE'S DAY FACING 98 • FRONT COVER AND TITLE PAGE OF " TAMERLANE AND OTHER POEMS " 120-121 POE'S LETTER TO ISAAC LEA , EXPLAINING " AL AARAAF " TITLE PAGE OF " AL AARAAF , TAMERLANE , AND MINOR POEMS " TITLE ...
... University of Virginia , where , after an extravagant course , followed by reformation at the last extremity , he was graduated with the highest honors of his class . Then came a boyish attempt to join the fortunes of the insurgent ...
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