Edgar Allan Poe : his life and legacy / Jeffrey Meyers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Meyers, Jeffrey.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849.

Poe, Edgar Allan.

Authors, American--19th century--Biography.

Authors, American.

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xii, 348 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : portraits ; 23 cm

Edition:

First Cooper Square Press edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Cooper Square Press, 2000.

Summary:

"This biography of Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), a giant of American literature who invented both the horror and detective genres, is a portrait of extremes: a disinherited heir, a brilliant but exploited author and editor, a man who veered radically from temperance to rampant debauchery, an agnostic who sought a return to religion at the end of his life. Acclaimed biographer Jeffrey Meyers explores the writer's turbulent life and career, including his marriage and multiple, simultaneous romances, his literary feuds, and his death at an early age under bizarre and troubling circumstances."--Jacket.

Contents:

An Inauspicious Birth, 1809-1811

Childhood: John Allan and England, 1812-1825

The University of Virginia, 1826

The Army and West Point, 1827-1831

Baltimore: Maria Clemm and Early Stories, 1831-1834

Richmond: The Southern Literary Messenger and Marriage, 1835-1836

Philadelphia: Burton's Magazine, 1837-1840

Philadelphia: Graham's Magazine, 1841-1843

A Lion in New York, 1844-1845

New York: The Broadway Journal, 1845

Fordham and Literary Quarrels, 1846-1847

Fordham: Eureka and Hopeless Love, 1848

Drink, Delirium and Death, 1849

Reputation

Influence.

Notes:

"An unabridged republication of the edition published in New York in 1992"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-337) and index.

ISBN:

0815410387

9780815410386

OCLC:

44413785