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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... sent to college without money to survive . Poe's letter to his informal adoptive father , John Allan , written around this time , sounds awfully self - serving . Despite his poverty , Poe maintains , “ books must be had ... and they ...
... sent by John Allan deliberately , without a decent allowance , or even the minimum charges of the institution .... Allan was in easy circumstances , and yet he refused to contribute for a year's expenses less than a third of the amount ...
... sent me the results of her researches in Baltimore . I am under special obligation to Major General E. S. Adams , of the War Department , and Dr. P. M. Hamer , Chief of the Division of Reference in the National Archives in Washington ...
... sent me photostat copies of the original letters from Poe to Mrs. Whitman , and of correspondence between Mrs. Whitman and many others , which enable me to depict her relations with Poe fairly and without sentimentality . Mr. William H ...
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