Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical BiographyJHU Press, 1997 M11 25 - 864 páginas Renowned 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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... course books to the hiring of a servant to " a thousand other necessaries , " before at- tributing his whole financial crisis , in a burst of self - pity , to the fact that he had " no one on Earth who cared for me , or loved me ...
... expense of the thousand details of life and business that give Edgar Allan Poe its au- thority and texture . Instead , over the course of hundreds of pages , Quinn builds a drama out of Poe's determination to survive xvi FOREWORD.
... of his fiction , but the high ambition and persistence Poe showed in pursuing the profession of authorship throughout the course of that life . SHAWN ROSENHEIM Preface A biography of Edgar Allan Poe becomes at once FOREWORD xvii.
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