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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... fact of his life . The intensity of such biographical identification suggests that there is something symptomatic about the relation of Poe's life to his writing , as if that life were under pressure to explain something about his texts ...
... fact that he had " no one on Earth who cared for me , or loved me . " Only then , he claims , does gambling enter the picture . Seeing here the self- exculpating half - truths so familiar from Poe's later letters , in which he explains ...
... facts of his life right . Almost alone of Poe's biographers , Quinn prefers to detail the moments of Poe's daily life as ... fact , trustworthy in his presentation - is fundamentally so unlike his subject that he is able to recount Poe's ...
... fact . To picture Poe as he really was , it is necessary for a biographer to examine all these speculations but it is not necessary to trouble the reader with them . I have tried to tell the story of Poe the American , not the exotic as ...
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