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基本説明
First published in 1941.
Full Description
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.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Foreword
Preface
Chapter 1. The Heritage
Chapter 2. Richmond-The Early Years
Chapter 3. The School Days in England
Chapter 4. Richmond Again, 1820-1826
Chapter 5. The University of Virginia
Chapter 6. "Tamerlane" and the Army
Chapter 7. Hope Deferred - "Al Aaraaf"
Chapter 8. West Point and the "Poems" of 1831
Chapter 9. Baltimore - The Early Fiction
Chapter 10. The Editor of the "Messenger"
Chapter 11. Philadelphia - The "Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque"
Chapter 12. At the Summit - The Editor of "Graham's Magazine"
Chapter 13. Following the Illusin
Chapter 14. New York - "The Raven" and Other Matters
Chapter 15. The "Broadway Journal" and the "Poems" of 1845
Chapter 16. Widening Horizons - Friends and Enemies
Chapter 17. "Eureka"
Chapter 18. To Helen and For Annie
Chapter 19. Richmond - The Last Appeal
Chapter 20. The Recoil of Fate
Appendices
Bibliography
Index
