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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... given and indeed are understated ” ( 111 ) . Having taken the time to rummage through obscure and decaying correspondence , Quinn unearths bills sent to " Mr. Edgar A. Powe " and forwarded to Allan for such minutiae as " 3 yds Super ...
... given the necessary capital , how undaunted he was by failure , will be apparent , I trust , in this biography . If this hope of his was only a dream , it was at least a noble dream . There is a mass of evidence , based upon ...
... 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 biography of Mrs. Richmond . His constant advice and that of his colleague , Mr. John Cook ...
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V | 47 |
VI | 62 |
VIII | 77 |
IX | 93 |
X | 114 |
XI | 134 |
XII | 214 |
XXVI | 636 |
XXVII | 691 |
XXVIII | 719 |
XXIX | 721 |
XXX | 724 |
XXXI | 726 |
XXXII | 736 |
XXXIII | 739 |
XIII | 257 |
XV | 299 |
XVII | 340 |
XVIII | 399 |
XIX | 445 |
XXI | 490 |
XXIII | 529 |
XXIV | 566 |
XXXIV | 741 |
XXXV | 745 |
XXXVI | 749 |
XXXVII | 751 |
XXXVIII | 757 |
XXXIX | 765 |