Edgar Allan Poe
eBook - ePub

Edgar Allan Poe

A Life

  1. 608 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Edgar Allan Poe

A Life

About this book

A groundbreaking exploration of one of America’s most iconic and misunderstood authors

Edgar Allan Poe: A Life is the most comprehensive critical biography of Poe yet produced, exploring his fascinating life, his extraordinary work, and the vital relationship between the two. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre found in such works as “The Raven,” “Annabel Lee,” and “The Tell-Tale Heart,” this legendary American author continues to intrigue and enthrall his devoted readers. Written by one of the world’s leading Poe experts, this biography is a rich and rewarding study for the general reader as well as for the seasoned scholar. Richard Kopley combines a biographical narrative of Poe’s enduring challenges—including his difficult foster father, his personal losses, his great struggles with depression and alcoholism, and the poverty that dogged his existence—with close readings of his work that focus not only on plot, character, and theme but also on language, allusion, and structure in a way that enhances our understanding of both. While incorporating past Poe scholarship, this volume also relates unknown stories of Poe culled from privately held letters unavailable to previous biographers, presenting a range of groundbreaking archival discoveries that illuminate the man and his oeuvre in ways never before possible.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. List of Abbreviations
  7. 1. “No Tie More Strong” ∙ 1809–1811
  8. 2. “From Childhood’s Hour” ∙ 1811–1815
  9. 3. “The Flap of Its Wings in My Ear” ∙ 1815–1820
  10. 4. “With Many Cares and Toils Oppress’d” ∙ 1820–1825
  11. 5. “Mistakes for Manhood to Reform” ∙ 1826
  12. 6. “Abroad on the Wide Earth” ∙ 1827
  13. 7. “In the American Army” ∙ 1827–1829
  14. 8. “Irrecoverably a Poet” ∙ 1829–1830
  15. 11. “Nothing Would Give Me Greater Pleasure” ∙ 1834–1835
  16. 12. “A Fair Prospect of Future Success” ∙ 1835–1837
  17. 13. “A Flattering Invitation” ∙ 1837–1838
  18. 14. “I Shall Remain in Philadelphia Perhaps for a Year” ∙ 1838–1840
  19. 15. “Fortune & Fame Must Go Hand in Hand” ∙ 1840–1842
  20. 16. “As Regards Myself—I Will Probably Succeed Too” ∙ 1842
  21. 17. “I Would Say to You, Without Hesitation, Aspire” ∙ 1843–1844
  22. 18. “A Certainty of Success” ∙ 1844–1845
  23. 19. “It Will Be a Fortune to Me If I Can Hold It” ∙ 1845–1846
  24. 20. “There Is a Sweet Hope in the Bottom of My Soul” ∙ 1846–1847
  25. 21. “Then My Heart It Grew Ashen and Sober” ∙ 1847–1848
  26. 22. “I Feel I Am Now a Prophet” ∙ 1848
  27. 23. “The Passionate Throbbings of My Heart” ∙ 1848–1849
  28. 24. “All May Yet Go Well” ∙ 1849
  29. 25. “Hope for a Wretch Like Me” ∙ 1849
  30. Conclusion ∙ “A Dream within a Dream”
  31. Acknowledgments
  32. Notes
  33. Index