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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... Hobson 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.
... Hopkins 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 ...
... HOPKINS . . 5 16-17 23 ELIZABETH ARNOLD POE . FACING 30 AUTOGRAPH LETTER OF POE'S MOTHER 43 • JOHN ALLAN FACING 62 FRANCES VALENTINE ALLAN FACING 62 POE'S SCHOOL AT STOKE - NEWINGTON , ENGLAND FACING 74 JOHN BRANSBY , POE'S ENGLISH ...
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