Edgar Allan Poe : A Life / Richard Kopley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kopley, Richard, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Authors, American.

Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849.

Poe, Edgar Allan.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (737 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville, Virginia : University of Virginia Press, [2025]

Summary:

"Written by one of the world's leading experts on the life and literature of Edgar Allan Poe, 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 illuminates the man and his oeuvre in ways never before possible"-- Provided by publisher.

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ISBN:

9780813952246

0813952247

OCLC:

1455337115