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Book SynopsisBased 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. "
Trade ReviewWithout warning, without any preliminary fanfare of trumpets, a book has now appeared that towers above others of its kind, a book in which resourceful scholarship and a lucid gift of expression are happily joined. I wish I could recapture all I have recklessly said in praise of other books and concentrate it here. Books
Table of ContentsList 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
