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 and new standards for what it is permissible to reveal have led to a flood of studies . Some of them , like ... written by James Russell Lowell for Graham's Magazine in 1841 , adulterate Poe's history , mixing actual events with ...
... writing ; and it will also be understood that no fact is misrep- resented in the first few pages which were written by Mr. Poe . Even to those readers who have not seen the Messenger , it will be unnec- essary to point out where his ...
... written . As a consequence , biographers have often been seduced by the parallels be- tween Poe's life and his ... Writing of Poe's professors at the University of Virginia , he records that George Blaetter- mann , the professor of ...
... written by Poe but also in those written to him . For the first time some of the most per- sistent slanders are thus stripped of their foundations . Under these circumstances , I have felt it necessary to give the present location of ...
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