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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... The Purloined Letter , " to Poe's habit of reviewing his own work under assumed names . Such confusion poses problems for biography , which depends on fidelity to the known facts at hand ; but as the preface to Pym indicates FOREWORD xiii.
... known that Rufus W. Griswold tampered with the corre- spondence entrusted to him , but the reader of this volume will , I believe , be amazed at the revelation of the forgeries in which Poe's first editor indulged , not only in the ...
... known as the " Valentine Letters " ) but also gave me free access to the unpublished manuscripts in his possession . To the skill in research and the unfailing courtesy of Mrs. Ralph T. Catterall , Honorary Curator of Prints and ...
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IV | xxiii |
V | 47 |
VI | 62 |
VIII | 77 |
IX | 93 |
X | 114 |
XI | 134 |
XII | 214 |
XXVI | 636 |
XXVII | 691 |
XXVIII | 719 |
XXIX | 721 |
XXX | 724 |
XXXI | 726 |
XXXII | 736 |
XXXIII | 739 |
XIII | 257 |
XV | 299 |
XVII | 340 |
XVIII | 399 |
XIX | 445 |
XXI | 490 |
XXIII | 529 |
XXIV | 566 |
XXXIV | 741 |
XXXV | 745 |
XXXVI | 749 |
XXXVII | 751 |
XXXVIII | 757 |
XXXIX | 765 |