Poe [electronic resource] / James M. Hutchisson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hutchisson, James M.

Series:

Willie Morris books in memoir and biography.

Willie Morris books in memoir and biography

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Authors, American.

Critics--United States--Biography.

Critics.

Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849.

Poe, Edgar Allan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (309 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was an American original-a luminous literary theorist, an erratic genius, and an analyst par excellence of human obsession and compulsion. The scope of his literary achievements and the dramatic character of Poe's life have drawn readers and critics to him in droves. And yet, upon his death, one obituary penned by a literary enemy in the New York Daily Tribune cascaded into a lasting stain on Poe's character, leaving a historic misunderstanding. Many remember Poe as a difficult, self-pitying, troubled drunkard often incapable of caring for himself. Poe reclaims the

Contents:

Childhood : Boston, Richmond, England (1809-1825)

The byronic youth : university, the army, and West Point (1826-1830)

Baltimore : early tales and satires (1831-1834)

Return to Richmond : marriage, the Southern Literary Messenger, and The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (1835-1837)

Philadelphia : Burton's Gentleman's magazine and the great tales (1838-1840)

Graham's magazine, "The Penn," and The red death (1841-1843)

New York : triumphs and troubles, "The raven" and the Longfellow war (1844-1845)

Quarrels, loves, and losses (1846-1848)

The journey and the lighthouse (1849).

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-43459-8

9786613434593

1-60473-653-4

OCLC:

774384481