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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... America on acid - free paper Johns Hopkins Paperbacks edition , 1998 9876543 The Johns Hopkins University Press 2715 ... American - 19th century - Biography . I. Title . PS2631.Q5 1998 818.309 - dc21 [ B ] A catalog record for this book ...
... POE'S VISITING CARD , MADE BY HIMSELF 567 EDGAR 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.
A Critical Biography Arthur Hobson Quinn. Foreword Like Americans more generally , scholars of American literature have long been obsessed with biography . Besides the abiding readerly inter- est in the lives of American authors , new ...
... American writing . As the author or editor of a dozen wide- ranging studies of American drama , fiction , and verse , Quinn has something both of Poe's encompassing absorption in the national litera- ture and of his sometimes desperate ...
... America depicted as a barren waste of spiritual vacancy . In order to establish his place as one of the pioneers of the sterling group of American writers who dignified our literature during the period before the Civil War , it is ...
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