Edgar Allan Poe
eBook - ePub

Edgar Allan Poe

A Critical Biography

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eBook - ePub

Edgar Allan Poe

A Critical Biography

About this book

Now in paperback—the classic, monumental biography of Poe by Arthur Hobson Quinn.

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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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. Foreword
  8. Preface
  9. I. The Heritage
  10. II. Richmond—The Early Years
  11. III. The School Days in England
  12. IV. Richmond Again, 1820-1826
  13. V. The University of Virginia
  14. VI. “Tamerlane” and the Army
  15. VII. Hope Deferred—“Al Aaraaf”
  16. VIII. West Point and the “Poems” of 1831
  17. IX. Baltimore—The Early Fiction
  18. X. The Editor of the Messenger
  19. XI. Philadelphia—The “Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque”
  20. XII. At the Summit—The Editor of “Graham’s Magazine”
  21. XIII. Following the Illusion
  22. XIV. New York—“The Raven” and Other Matters
  23. XV. The “Broadway Journal” and the “Poems” of 1845
  24. XVI. Widening Horizons—Friends and Enemies
  25. XVII. “Eureka”
  26. XVIII. To Helen and For Annie
  27. XIX. Richmond—The Last Appeal
  28. XX. The Recoil of Fate
  29. Appendices
  30. Bibliography
  31. Index
  32. Footnotes