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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... 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 desire to maintain ...
... writes in The Dreamer : A Romantic Rendering of the Life - Story of Edgar Allan Poe , " more than to any one of his ... Writing of Poe's professors at the University of Virginia , he records that George Blaetter- mann , the professor of ...
... writer has been the rarest of gifts in Poe's biographers . Quinn himself— poised , thorough in matters of fact ... writing . As the author or editor of a dozen wide- ranging studies of American drama , fiction , and verse , Quinn has ...
... writer at a time when most of his peers ( including Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville ) eventually abandoned writing for the security of more settled careers . " In biography the truth is everything , " Poe wrote , perhaps as much ...
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