Poe (Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography)

by James M. Hutchisson

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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 Baltimore and Virginia writer's reputation...Read more
  • ISBN10 1604736534
  • ISBN13 9781604736533
  • Publish Date 22 December 2011 (first published 23 March 2005)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint University Press of Mississippi
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 309
  • Language English