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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... Authors , American - 19th century - Biography . I. Title . PS2631.Q5 1998 818.309 - dc21 [ B ] A catalog record for this book is available from the British Library . 97-18240 CIP Το C.Q.H. A.H.Q. , Jr . K.C.Q. F.Q.S. J.H.Q. Contents.
... 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 WEST POINT 742 VII . THE ...
... records , and Poe's correspondence , much of which had never before been published . Nor does Quinn limit his evidence only to material that confirms a par- ticular interpretation of Poe's life . Edgar Allan Poe is full of casual in ...
... in order to disprove their validity . So much generous help has been given to me and so much new material has been placed at my disposal that even the record of my gratitude becomes a roll - call of scholars , collectors XX PREFACE.
... records of the Poe and Clemm families . Miss May G. Evans has also sent me the results of her researches in ... record of Poe , for the first time . Dr. St. George L. Siousatt , Chief of the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress ...
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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 |