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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... 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 NORFOLK IN 1811 730 V. WHERE DID ELIZABETH POE DIE ? 732 VI . POE'S RECORD IN THE ARMY AND AT ...
... POE'S GRANDMOTHER , ELIZABETH AR- NOLD , AT COVENT GARDEN . POE'S FAMILY TREE MARRIAGE - BOND OF DAVID POE , JR . AND ELIZABETH ARNOLD HOPKINS . . 5 16-17 23 ELIZABETH ARNOLD POE . FACING 30 AUTOGRAPH LETTER OF POE'S MOTHER 43 • JOHN ...
... POE COTTAGE AT FORDHAM . FACING 506 VIRGINIA FACING 524 POE'S LETTER TO EVELETH , JANUARY 4 , 1848 536-537 • TITLE PAGE OF " EUREKA " 540 POE'S VISITING CARD , MADE BY HIMSELF 567 EDGAR ALLAN POE IN 1848 FACING 574 MARIA CLEMM . EDGAR ALLAN ...
... Poe's letters to paint himself as Poe's beneficiary ) that Poe has never fully recovered from Griswold's portrait of him as a drunken , amoral , death - obsessed wretch . Not that subsequent biographers haven't tried to amend Griswold's ...
... Poe's life to his writing , as if that life were under pressure to explain something about his texts . In part , this is due to the intimate , insinuating voice of Poe's first - person narrators , those unnamed figures whose fierce ...
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