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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... JOHN ALLAN FACING 62 FRANCES VALENTINE ALLAN FACING 62 POE'S SCHOOL AT STOKE - NEWINGTON , ENGLAND FACING 74 JOHN BRANSBY , POE'S ENGLISH SCHOOLMASTER • FACING 74 JANE STITH CRAIG STANARD . FACING 86 ONE OF POE'S RICHMOND HOMES . 92 THE ...
... John Allan , " a wealthy Virginian whose barren marriage- bed seemed the warranty of a large estate to the young poet . " But Low- ell's claims effervesce into Byronic fantasies of what Poe wished had happened in his life : " Having ...
... John Allan , written around this time , sounds awfully self - serving . Despite his poverty , Poe maintains , “ books must be had ... and they were bought accordingly upon credit . " In this manner debts were accumulated . . . for I was ...
... Allan " evidently failed to send any pocket money at all . To a college where the proctor estimated that the great majority of the young men spent at least five hundred dollars in one session , Poe was sent by John Allan deliberately ...
... John Cook Wyllie , have helped me in many ways . Dr. Thomas O. Mabbott has not only read the proofs , but has also given me valuable information in advance of the much needed critical edition of Poe's works , which I trust will soon ...
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