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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... - FRIENDS AND ENEMIES 496 XVII . " EUREKA " 535 XVIII . TO HELEN AND FOR ANNIE . XIX . RICHMOND - THE LAST APPEAL XX . THE RECOIL OF FATE • 572 615 642 APPENDICES PAGE I. THE THEATRICAL CAREER OF EDGAR POE'S PARENTS II.
A Critical Biography Arthur Hobson Quinn. APPENDICES PAGE I. THE THEATRICAL CAREER OF EDGAR POE'S PARENTS 697 II . ORIGINAL RECORDS OF THE POE AND CLEMM FAMILIES IN BALTIMORE 725 III . EDGAR POE'S BIRTHPLACE 727 IV . THE POE FAMILY IN ...
A Critical Biography Arthur Hobson Quinn. Illustrations EDGAR ALLAN POE , AT THE AGE OF THIRTY - FIVE • FRONTISPIECE PAGE PLAYBILL ... EDGAR POE AND VIRGINIA CLEMM . 206 . 220-222 FACING 230 253 TITLE PAGE OF " ARTHUR GORDON PYM " . TITLE.
... " 540 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.
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Contents
IV | xxiii |
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 |