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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... VIRGINIA IN POE'S DAY FACING 98 • FRONT COVER AND TITLE PAGE OF " TAMERLANE AND OTHER POEMS " 120-121 POE'S LETTER ... VIRGINIA URGING A SPEEDY MARRIAGE RICHMOND IN POE'S DAY MARRIAGE BOND OF EDGAR POE AND VIRGINIA CLEMM . 206 . 220-222 ...
... VIRGINIA • FACING 498 THE 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 ...
... Virginia , he records that George Blaetter- mann , the professor of modern languages , " was an irascible person , who went so far as to cowhide his wife on the street , and he was dis- missed in 1838 at the request of the undergraduate ...
... Virginia lessons in Algebra . " Although " Wilmer's account is evi- dently at times unreliable , " Quinn finds a quotidian reality about the algebra lessons that helps to verify Wilmer's picture of Poe's domestic relations ( 198 ) ...
... Virginia , has gen- erously given me permission to print in complete form for the first time certain letters of Poe to " Annie , " which he has been preserving for his biography of Mrs. Richmond . His constant advice and that of his ...
Contents
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V | 47 |
VI | 62 |
VIII | 77 |
IX | 93 |
X | 114 |
XI | 134 |
XII | 214 |
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XXVII | 691 |
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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 |